CCI Policy Manual: 83704: Look for NMR Lipoprotein Limits and Opportunities

Update your transfusion medicine guidelines, too.

You always watch to see how Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) quarterly updates impact your lab, but if you overlook changes to the National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual, you could miss lots of coding restrictions and unbundling possibilities that impact your bottom line.

Thanks to a Jan. 2012 update, your lab has lots of new rules to face this year. You read about some of those changes in "88342, 88360-88361: Report IHC Per Specimen for Medicare Beneficiaries" in Pathology/Lab Coding Alert Vol. 13 no.2. Now we've got the lowdown on a few more important changes [...]

- Published on 2012-02-07