tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q1

Policy Update: Know All the Facts on New Acupuncture Coverage Changes

Caution: Review provider restrictions to avoid denials. If acupuncture services are on your radar as a helpful offering to alleviate your patients’ pain, you’ll be excited to know that Medicare will now reimburse for the treatment option. Then: Last July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed adding acupuncture to its list of covered services as an alternative to opioids for managing lower back pain (see Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement, Vol. 45, No. 14). Now: On Jan. 21, CMS released a National Coverage Determination (NCD) change and will now pay for acupuncture services, indicates an NCD...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.