CMS Knows You’re Confused About POS Rules
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Transmittal 2679 on April 1, the agency was aiming to clarify place of service coding instruction. However, the change request (numbered 7631) only created confusion about how to report the place of service (POS) in certain scenarios, and CMS decided to take action.
"The place of service change request 7631 that went into effect on April 1 prompted a lot of questions, so we posted some frequently-asked questions on the CMS website," said CMS’s Chris Ritter during a June...
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