Quarterly NCCI and MUE Version Update Changes

With the October 1, 2011 NCCI and MUE quarterly version updates, CMS is now posting the changes to each of its National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) and Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) published edit files on a quarterly basis. The additions, deletions, and revisions to published MUEs for Practitioner Services, Outpatient Hospital Services, and DME Supplier Services, the additions, deletions, and modifier indicator quarterly changes to NCCI column 1/ column 2 correct coding edits and the NCCI mutually exclusive code edits for Physicians, and the additions, deletions, and modifier indicator quarterly changes to NCCI column 1/ column 2 correct coding edits and the NCCI mutually exclusive code edits for Hospital Outpatient PPS in the Outpatient Code Editor are on this page under downloads. These changes reflect the modifications in the NCCI and MUE published edit files posted for the current quarter.