tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 19

CMS Issues Final 2003 Pricing Update

Even while Medicare was putting forward its massive 2004 fee schedule plan for doctors, it was tinkering with the 2003 fees. In program memo AB-03-119, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services corrects several errors in the 2003 Physician Fee Schedule. The changes are retroactive to last March. CMS changed 78306 (Bone and/or joint imaging; whole body) and 78320 (Bone and/or joint imaging; tomographic) to multiple procedure indicator zero, meaning that the bilateral payment adjustment will no longer apply. CMS also reinstated G0027 (Semen analysis; pres and/or motility of sperm), which was inadvertently deleted from the fee schedule database...

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