Archive for The Day of January 10th, 2007
Archive for the Day of January 10th, 2007
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of January 10th, 2007.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during January 10th, 2007.
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Critical Care NCCI Edits For 2007
NCCI has some important updates for 2007, If you need to report an emergency department (ED) visit as well as a critical care code (99291), you should keep in mind that a bundle, care of the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI), version 12.3, prevents you from reporting both. The code range that you should be aware of is 99281-99285 alongside critical care code 99291 (Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill or critically injured patient; first 30-74 minutes). The ED visit is now a component to the comprehensive critical care service with the new NCCI edit, you can’t separate this with a modifier. There are currently no known …
