Each year, the AMA updates the Vaccines, Toxoids section of the Medicine chapter in the CPT® Manual to add or revise descriptions of newly available products. In 2015, the AMA added two new product codes (90651, 90630) and revised four (90654, 90721, 90723, and 90734).
This week’s note is about changes to CMS policies related to preadmission inpatient-only procedures. Click the link above for more information and an in-depth analysis.
This week’s note is about billing related to Investigational Device Exemption studies. Click the link above for more information and an in-depth analysis.
The implementation of Comprehensive APCs (C-APCs) in the 2015 OPPS final rule likely wasn't a huge surprise to most providers, given CMS discussed this concept in the 2014 final rule and indicated it expected to implement it the following year.