CMS designed the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) to promote national correct coding methodologies and to control improper coding that leads to inappropriate payment in Part B claims, according to the agencys own introduction to CCI.
How it affects you: The CCI lists thousands of edits — code combinations that you should not, in most circumstances, report together during the same patient encounter. You must apply these edits when reporting services to all Medicare (and many private) [...]
