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Your documentation must support the clinical reasons for breaking Correct Coding Initiative bundles.
If your podiatrist is in the habit of coding wound explorations separately from foreign body removals, he'd better break that habit quickly -- or risk running afoul of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI).
CCI version 17.3, which takes effect Oct. 1, offers 1,380 new edit pairs and 835 terminated bundles, according to an analysis by Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB, principal and senior analyst with The Frank Cohen Group, LLC. As was the case with the previous CCI edition, the majority of edits impact the codes from the musculoskeletal [...]
- Published on 2011-10-14
