One of the persistent complaints of the lab industry, to CMS, has been the secretive process for National Correct Coding Initiative edits, their errors, and how they are sprung at the end of the year on the provider community. (ACLA has even complained to other parts of the government, about these edits, here.)
2025 is no better. Last year, the edit policy manual came out on December 1 (for 2024). Right now, it's December 9 and the new 2025 manual is not released yet.
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