Quarterly Update to CCI Edits, Version 11.1
April 1, 2005The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Quarterly Update to Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits, Version 11.1, effective April 01, 2005.
Version 11.1 will include all previous versions and updates from January 01, 1996, to the present and will be organized into tables. Table 1 contains Column 1/Column 2 Correct Coding Edits and table 2 contains Mutually Exclusive Code (MEC) Edits. The current update reflects the following changes:
Correct Coding Edits
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Effective Date | Modifier* |
| 84481 | 84480 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87140 | 87269 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87147 | 87329 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87253 | 87269 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87253 | 87329 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87253 | 87660 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87254 | 87269 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 88161 | 88160 | 2005/04/01 | 0 |
* 0=not allowed 1=allowed 9=not applicable
Mutually Exclusive Edits
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Effective Date | Modifier* |
| 84160 | 84156 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 84160 | 84157 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
| 87149 | 87660 | 2005/04/01 | 1 |
* 0=not allowed 1=allowed 9=not applicable