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Getting paid: Effective March 1: CMS takes steps to trim the P-Stim whim
The medical practice that paid a settlement after it allegedly billed Medicare for surgically implanted neurostimulators when the doctor had applied P-Stim devices may have looked like a fluke. However, the problem appears to be more widespread, based on an MLN Matters article that warns practices that they should not bill an implantable generator supply code for P-Stim, Stivax, NeuroStim, ANSiStim, E-Pulse or any of the other electro-acupuncture devices on the market.
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