tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 15

PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP

Durable medical equipment suppliers have a host of new "K" codes to get familiar with, thanks to a trio of April 11 program memoranda from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the memos (AB-03-043; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03043.pdf, AB-03-044; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03044.pdf and AB-03-045; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03045.pdf), CMS adds temporary K codes for: thoracic lumbar sacral orthosis (K0618 and K0619); and dialysis supplies, speech generating devices and automatic defibrillators and supplies (K0606 through K0617). The agency also adds two K codes (K0620 and K0621) for surgical dressings. In other recent program memoranda CMS:  clarifies coverage...

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