tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 14

Coverage: CMS Announces 4 New Coverage Actions

CMS Announces 4 New Coverage Actions The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hard at work to decide which services you'll be able to bill in the future. Recently CMS:    opened a tracking sheet for coverage of bacterial urine culture for patients with renal failure. CMS is reviewing whether to include ICD-9 Codes 584.x (Acute renal failure), 585 (Chronic renal failure) and 586 (Renal failure, unspecified). Currently, Medicare covers urine cultures for 585 and 586, and CMS is reconsidering whether these three codes "flow from the narrative indications." Providers have until Aug. 6 to...

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