This week’s Medicare updates include the October edition of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter, a pair of requests for information on potential usage of artificial intelligence to prevent fraud, Medicare Advantage billing instructions for CAR-T therapy, and more!
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy provided to Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries will be paid for by traditional Medicare for calendar years 2019 and 2020.
Q: If a patient comes in twice a day over the course of a week to receive an IV infusion of Vancomycin and the same line is used daily, would the coder report one initial infusion CPT code per day?