AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2023 Issue 1; In This Issue

Changes to Medicare's Inpatient Only List for CY2023

As previously reported in Coding Clinic for HCPCS Fourth Quarter 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reversed its decision to eliminate the Inpatient Only List (IPO) in CY2022. Following the reversal, the IPO list is updated annually. For CY2023, eleven codes were removed and eight codes were added to the list.Of the eleven codes removed from the IPO list for CY2023, ten are in the musculoskeletal section of CPT. Nine of the ten are related to facial bone reconstructions, and/or repairs of facial bone fractures (e.g., Lefort reconstructions, malar fractures). The tenth is...

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