AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 11 (November)

Reporting Drug Administrations Services for 2006 (November 2005)

November 2005 pages 1-9 Reporting Drug Administrations Services for 2006 In 2004, Section 1848(c)(2)(J) of the Social Security Act (as added by section 303[a] of the Medicare Modernization Act) required the secretary of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to promptly evaluate existing drug administration codes for physicians' services to ensure accurate reporting and billing for those services and to take into account the levels of complexity of administration and resource consumption. The law further provided for the use of the existing processes of the CPT Editorial Panel and Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) for the recommendation...

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