AMA CPT® Assistant - 2004 Issue 4 (April)

Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System: 2004 Update - Part 2 (April 2004)

April 2004 pages 6-7 Coding Update:Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System: 2004 Update - Part 2 This is the second part of a two-part series. Part 2 addresses reporting drugs as supplies, blood and blood products, cardioverter defibrillators, nuclear medicine, brachytherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, and computer-aided detection for diagnostic mammography. Part 1 can be found in the March 2004 issue of CPT Assistant. Reporting Drugs as Supplies To clarify reporting confusion, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reiterated its instruction to hospitals to report drugs that are treated as supplies (when they are an integral part of a procedure...

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