AMA CPT® Assistant - 2003 Issue 10 (October)

Overview for Home Health Services (October 2003)

October 2003 pages 7-8 Coding Communication:Overview for Home Health Services One of the goals of the CPT-5 Project is to expand utilization of CPT into areas such as nonphysician healthcare professions and home health services where a nationally standardized mechanism for reporting coded data has been lacking. Establishing CPT codes for qualified non-physician healthcare professionals is an important element of the CPT-5 Project because this was an area where critics felt the CPT code set was deficient. In addition, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the August 17, 2000, Final Rule and Notice for Standards for...

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