The new outpatient CPT modifier 33 is the "most noteworthy" change in CMS' Outpatient Code Editor Version 12.1, effective April 4, according to an AAPC report.
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Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending ambulatory surgery centers receive a 0.5 percent increase and physicians a 1 percent increase in their 2012 Medicare payment rates.
The American Medical Association has updated its CPT 2011 corrections document, adding several grammatical corrections and changes to parenthetical notes and code descriptions, according to an AAPC release.
National Government Services, the jurisdiction B Medicare administrative contractor, reminds providers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies to submit monthly claims for repetitive serves and items in sequence, according to an AAPC release.
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The American Academy for Physician Assistants has posted a list of procedure codes that Medicare will not reimburse physician assistants for in 2011.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has requested to gauge provider readiness for 5010 and ICD-10 in an industry-wide survey, according to a Cardiovascular Business report.
The California Ambulatory Surgery Association continues to challenge regulations that would reduce workers' compensation rates to ASCs, according to an ASC Association release.
At the American Glaucoma Society meeting, Stephen A. Kamenetzky, MD, OCS, said ophthalmologists will see lower reimbursement for optical coherence tomography following changes in CMS coding, according to an OSN SuperSite report.
ICD-10 will impact productivity of healthcare organizations on many levels, slowing the process of documentation, entering new codes and payor communication, according to an AAPC release.