tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 9

BILLING: Inadequate Billing Codes May Restrict Consumer Access To Alternative Treatments

Sustaining a government-sponsored monopoly could cost $51 billion in savings.Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Mike Leavitt has reiterated his commitment to consumer-driven health care, but critics allege that he is taking choices away from the very consumers he seeks to empower. On Oct. 16, 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) killed a project that Leavitt's predecessor, Tommy Thompson, initiated before his resignation at the end of President Bush's first term. Thompson had authorized Alternative Link, the parent company of ABC Coding Solutions, to use ABC codes for billing purposes in Alaska and...

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