BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 5

Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) COVID-19 Test Pricing May 19, 2020

 On March 5 and February 13, CMS announced new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes for healthcare providers and laboratories to test patients for SARS-CoV2. Starting in April, laboratories performing the test can bill Medicare and other health insurers for services that occurred after February 4, 2020, using the newly created HCPCS code (U0001). This code is only to be used for the tests developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Laboratories performing non-CDC laboratory tests for SARS-CoV-2/2019nCoV (COVID-19) can bill for them using a different HCPCS code (U0002).  Additionally, the American...

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