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MLN Educational Tool

MLN9018659 — April 2022

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How to Use the Medicaid National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Tools

Table of Contents

  1. What is the Medicaid NCCI?
  2. Using the Medicaid NCCI Tools
  3. Manuals
  4. Filtering the NCCI Data Tables
  5. Resources

Select a Chapter from the list at the top of the tool to learn how to use the Medicaid NCCI tools. Throughout this educational tool, “you” refers to health care providers and suppliers, and “we” refers to CMS.

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To Learn More…

If you find this educational tool helpful, you can review others in this series. To find these educational tools, go to the MLN Publications webpage and search for “how to.”

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