Cardiology Coding Alert

CCI Update: 36000 and More Benefit From Edit Deletions in October

Plus: 93602 and 93610 are no longer bundled with 92961.

In the latest version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), it's the deleted edit pairs -- rather than the added ones -- that may be of most interest to you. Check out these vascular and electrophysiology (EP) changes, effective Oct. 1, 2011, for physicians.

Don't Assume Old 36xxx Edits Still Apply

This version of CCI deletes 835 edit pairs, notes Frank Cohen, principal and senior analyst for The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, in his NCCI 17.3 Update (available at www.frankcohen.com/html/access.html).

More than 600 of those deletions eliminate edits that had 36xxx [...]

- Published on 2011-10-10

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