tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 1

PHYSICIANS: New Codes Split Components Of Flow Cytometry

CMS slashes roughly $200 from interpretation code. Changes to the physician fee schedule could make it harder for leukemia patients to obtain important tests next year, doctors recently told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CPT 2005 deletes the old flow cytometry code (88180), which paid for flow cytometry per marker. Instead, new codes will cover just the technical components of flow cytometry for the first marker (88184), and each additional marker (88185). And new codes (88186-88189) will pay for interpretation of flow cytometry for the first marker, the second through eighth markers, ninth through 15th markers, and...

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