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AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2007 Issue 3; FOR your INFORMATION
New codes for unidentified brachytherapy sources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created two new “not otherwise specified” codes to report brachytherapy sources that do not have source-specific codes yet. The newly created HCPCS codes are for stranded and non-stranded sources and are as follows:
C2698, Brachytherapy source, stranded, not otherwise specified, per source
C2699, Brachytherapy source, non-stranded, not otherwise specified, per source.
These codes should be reported for new FDA-approved and marketed radioactive sources consisting of a radioactive isotope that is consistent with the CMS definition of a brachytherapy source that is eligible for separate payment. If the brachytherapy source...
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