How to Use The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Tools

Are you familiar with the NCCI (National Correct Coding Initiative) and how to tell if your coding is up to par?

The guide, "How to Use The National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Tools" Produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services highlights the following topics:

• What is the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI)
• Who should use the NCCI Web Page, Tables, and Manual
• How Up-to-Date are the NCCI Tables
• Background: NCCI Edits
• Using The NCCI Tools 
• Looking Up 2 Types of Code Pair Edits  
• How to Use the Code Pair Tables 
• Looking up the 3 Provider-Types of Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs)
• Using the NCCI Policy Manual For Medicare Services
• Resources page with additional websites
• How to Filter NCCI data tables

To download and view the full guide, please go to the following link: NCCI Tools

Coding Assistance with Quick Reference Coding Cards

Are you struggling to keep up-to-date with changing rules and requirements for coding?

To help, we created a handy pocket-sized "Quick Reference Coding Card" for Emergency Medicine, Internists, and Hospitalists:

An overview of the cards are listed by their specialty

Emergency Medicine:

• Explains Observation Guidelines/Key Procedures with appropriate codes
• Amount of Observation time required by Medicare and Medicaid
• Critical & Fracture Care Coding Guidelines with the appropriate codes
  

Office Visit Coding Card:

• Describes how to distinguish between new and established patients
• Explains time based codes, E/M levels and MDM (Medical Decision Making) criteria

Hospitalist Coding Card:

• Explains the difference between the Initial and Subsequent visits and the related codes used.
  

To download and view the quick reference card of your choice, please click the following link: Quick Reference Coding Cards