tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 38

Surgery: Neurosurgeons Gain Key Senate Victory

But language won't have any reimbursement impact, say oncologists. Neurosurgeons who feel as though radiologists are improperly billing for stereotactic neurosurgery recently scored an important point on Capitol Hill.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should move cobalt 60 stereotactic neurosurgery from the radiation therapy section to the neurosurgery section of the Ambulatory Procedure Classification system for outpatient procedures, Senators insisted. The language in the Senate Committee Report accompanying S. 2810, the appropriations bill for the Labor, HHS and Education departments, calls on CMS to remedy reimbursement problems by reinstating one neurosurgery code for cobalt 60 SNS.Neurosurgeons...

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