tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 33

PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added a trio of new "K" codes for billing for speech generating devices. According to an Aug. 22 program memorandum (AB-03-128; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03128.pdf), the new codes are: K0615 - Speech generating device, digitized speech, using pre-recorded messages, from 8 to 20 minutes recording time; K0616 - Speech generating device, digitized speech, using pre-recorded messages, 20 to 40 minutes recording time; and K0617 - Speech generating device, digitized speech, using pre-recorded messages, more than 40 minutes recording time. In other recent program memoranda, CMS: updates the code list for therapy...

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