tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 29

Doctors Protest Cuts To Multiple Moh's Procedures

Heads up: A little-noticed proposal in the 2008 Medicare fee schedule could slash your reimbursement for Moh's micrographic surgery (17311-17315). Medicare wants to apply the Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction if your doctor performs more than one Moh's procedure in the same session.Medicare believes the costs will be lower for multiple procedures because some services will overlap. But this reasoning doesn't apply to Moh-s, argued Thomas Stasko, director of Moh's for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville in written comments. The July 2004 CPT Assistant explains: -There is very little overlap or reduction in work when two or more...

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