CCI Update: New CCI Edits Reverse ‘No-Go’ Status of Injections With Some Vascular Procedures

Hint: Visit 'deleted edits' section for updates to paravertebral facet joint injections.

The latest edition of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits, effective Oct. 1, holds some nice surprises for neurology and pain management coders. Instead of being saddled with additional edits that restrict your claims filing, most pairs related to neurology or pain management actually fall under the "deleted edits" category.

"For the terminated pairs, 218 were retroactively terminated back to the last quarter release and one back to January 1, 2010," says Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC, in Clearwater, Fl. [...]

- Published on 2011-10-13