Don't overlook condition codes
Billing Alert for Long-Term Care, November 1, 2008
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A recent CMS transmittal shines the spotlight on an often-overlooked UB-04 coding element: the condition code (CC). Many billers don’t realize the purpose ofusing CCs at form locators (FL) 18–28 on Part A claims, says Missy Tieken, director of billing services at Consolidated Billing Services, Inc., in Spokane, WA.
“People call me all of the time asking, ‘Why is this claim hanging up?’ Often, the problem is a missing condition code,” Tieken says.
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