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36561 Insertion of CVA device, with subq port, age 5 or older

Date: Oct 21, 2019

Question:

We are receiving denials for billing 36561 and 77001-26, 76937-26 together. I have not noticed this happening before; it seems to be recent. Our NCCI edit program is saying 77001, 76937 require a primary code, and it does not recognize 36561 as a primary code. Is this a correct denial? Did something recently change? I can't seem to find any recent information on it.

Question ID : 13189
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