tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 7
Low Osmolar Contrast: Yet Another Coding Flip-Flop Leads to Reinstatement
It makes you wonder how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cope once there is no more 90-day grace period for coding changes. CMS has made a habit of bringing back codes that it just canceled, just before their final expiration dates. For example, CMS recently reprieved J0880 (Injection, darbepoetin alfa, 5 mcg), which was deleted as of Jan. 1. Now CMS has announced that the three codes it deleted for low osmolar contrast material (A4644-A4646) would be returned to use. In this case, the replacement code, A9525, will go away. Next year, CMS won't have the...
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