tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 36

PHYSICIANS: You Could Lose All Your Payments For 99325 Next Year

CPT 2009 may contain new combined echocardiography codeA provision in the 2008 Physician Fee Schedule proposal could snuff out your reimbursement for color flow Doppler (CPT code 93325).The proposal: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to bundle 93325 (Doppler echocardiography color flow velocity mapping) into all of the other echocardiogram base codes. This will have a significant impact on echocardiography providers, as well as patient care and safety, wrote Ariel Soffer, a physician with the Hollywood, FL-based Florida Institute for Cardiovascular Care, in his comments on the proposed regulation. "It is imperative that CMS understand the...

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