Interesting Trend in NCCI Edits

 The number of active NCCI edits increased significantly this year.

We saw a near doubling of physician edits last quarter, with hospital CCI edits quickly converging to match the physician version.

If you have updateable NCCI tools, that means you are going to see many more codes involved in edits.  If you rely solely on paper-based updates published yearly, the content that hit the presses last fall will be remarkably inaccurate for the 2nd half of 2009.

TOTAL NUMBER OF NCCI EDIT PAIRS FOR HOSPITAL:

• No. of Q3 2009 edits (hosp): 613,442 (97.5% of phys edits from previous quarter) 
• No. of Q2 2009 edits (hosp): 307,022 (94% of phys edits from previous quarter) 
• No. of Q1 2009 edits (hosp): 266,288 (83% of phys edits from previous quarter) 
• No. of Q4 2008 edits (hosp): 219,226 (69% of phys edits from previous quarter)

 TOTAL NUMBER OF NCCI EDIT PAIRS FOR PHYSICIAN:

(Physician edits lead by 1 quarter)

• No. of Q3 2009 edits (phys): 626,582
• No. of Q2 2009 edits (phys): 629,107
• No. of Q1 2009 edits (phys): 325,058
• No. of Q4 2008 edits (phys): 320,056
• No. of Q3 2008 edits (phys): 316,795