Not this year: CMS still bundles anticoagulant management codes

Why This Topic Matters

Medicare fee schedule updates can change whether services are paid separately or treated as part of broader evaluation and management payment. Articles like this help organizations track policy decisions affecting billing workflow, payer follow-up, and expectations for reimbursement under Medicare and potentially other payers.

Article Sections

1. Anticoagulant management codes remain bundled

   The article opens with Medicare’s 2008 decision affecting anticoagulant management services and discusses the broader physician fee schedule context. It notes the type of payment treatment CMS continued to apply and the related outpatient evaluation and management framework.

2. Other bundled services: ventilator management and genetic counseling

   This section covers additional services that CMS also kept in bundled status for the same fee schedule year. It summarizes the agency’s treatment of home ventilator management and genetic counseling within the Medicare payment policy update.