tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 4

THERAPY CAPS ~ Check Out A Brand New List Of Applicable ICD-9 Codes

Say goodbye to the manual exceptions process -- for now. Right after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released updates to the therapy cap exceptions process last November, the agency turned around a month later and put a new spin on things: the manual exceptions process no longer exists. On Dec. 29, 2006 CMS released Transmittal 1145 mandating that the exceptions process would instead be "entirely automatic" starting Jan. 1, 2007. Know The Pros And Cons The good news: The automatic process hasn't changed, so you don't need to learn any new steps. Other good news is...

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