NCCI Quarterly Edits Posted, Some Therapy Edits Removed
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the January 1, 2021, changes to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits. As you may recall, in September 2020 CMS reinstated a number of deleted edits, once again requiring a 59 modifier to indicate the services were performed in separate time frames to receive proper payment. As the result of advocacy from AOTA and other stakeholders, CMS has deleted several of those edits effective on January 1, 2021. The
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