Asuris Northwest Health Correct Code Editor
Asuris Northwest Health utilizes Medicare’s National
Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) as the
basis for it’s clinical edits. NCCI
identifies pairs of services that normally
should not be billed by the same physician
for the same patient on the same day. NCCI
also promotes uniformity among the contractors
that process Medicare claims in interpreting
Medicare payment policies. CMS has made
the NCCI edits available on their Web site.
Asuris Northwest Health has identified code pair edits to be used as a supplement to Medicare's NCCI. These code pair edits were developed using nationally accepted, logical and predictable coding principles. In arriving at these supplemental coding edits, Asuris Northwest Health Correct Code Editor (CCE), the following were taken into consideration:
1. CPT manual, including code definitions and associated text
2. CPT Assistant
3. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
4. The CMS Federal Register
5. Medicare Part B News
6. HCPCS manual
To provide feedback or get clarification about
the Asuris Northwest Health CCE code pairs, please
contact your Provider
Consultant.
CCE supplement
to CCI version 18.1
For dates of service beginning April 1, 2012 |
Complete Lists
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Added Code Pair Edits Do Not Bypass with Modifier -59 (effective 7/1/2012)
Deleted Code Pair Edits
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CCE supplement
to CCI version 18.0
For dates of service beginning January 1, 2012 |
Complete Lists
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Deleted Code Pair Edits
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CCE supplement
to CCI version 17.3
For dates of service beginning October 1, 2011 |
Complete Lists
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Added Code Pair Edits - effective 1/1/2012
Deleted Code Pair Edits
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CCE supplement
to CCI version 17.2
For dates of service beginning July 1, 2011 |
Complete Lists
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Added Code Pair Edits - effective 10/1/2011
Deleted Code Pair Edits
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CCE supplement
to CCI version 17.1
For dates of service beginning April 1, 2011 |
Complete Lists
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Added Code Pair Edits - effective July 1, 2011
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Please contact your Provider Consultant for copies of previous lists.
How to search within the document:
You can use the Find command to locate all
occurrences of a HCPCS/CPT code in the correct
coding edits file. To find a code using the Find
command:
- Open the document by clicking on the "Go" button.
- Click the binoculars icon in the Adobe Acrobat Reader toolbar, located inside your browser window.
- Enter the HCPCS/CPT code in the "Find What" box.
- Select any of the find options, and then
click "Find".
Acrobat Reader finds the first occurrence of
the word or number.
- Click the binoculars with the curved arrow in the Adobe Acrobat Reader toolbar to find additional occurrences of the code you entered.
Printing sections of PDF documents:
These supplemental edit documents are very large, over 100 pages in some instances. Therefore, we recommend you do not print the entire document, but rather select the individual pages or sections to be printed. You can specify a range of pages to print in the Print dialog box:
- Click on the printer icon in the Adobe Acrobat Reader toolbar, located inside your browser window.
- Specify the printer, paper range, number of copies and other options, then click OK.
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