AMA CPT® Assistant - 2003 Issue 2 (February)

CPT/HCPCS Hospital Outpatient Reporting Part II (February 2003)

February 2003 pages 7-14 Coding Update:CPT/HCPCS Hospital Outpatient Reporting Part II This article is the second part of a multipart series of articles that address the various facets of Medicare's hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS). To appropriately interpret OPPS rules/instruction, a general understanding of the integral use of both the CPT and HCPCS Level II code sets is required. In this part we focus on how/why it is necessary to recognize and report CPT "add-on" codes. To better understand why HCPCS "G" codes are required, we discuss some of the circumstances that affect the creation of HCPCS "G"...

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