tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 7

CPT® 2013: 99495-99496 Capture Your Surgeon's Transitional Care Management

Clarify reporting details with CMS FAQs. When your general surgeon oversees a very ill patient’s transfer from facility to home, you didn’t have a way to claim that service until CPT® 2013 added two new transitional care management (TCM) codes. If questions about when and how to use these codes has stopped you from securing the pay your surgeon deserves, now’s the time to get those questions answered, at least for Medicare beneficiaries. CMS’sRyan Howealerted practices to the new information during the agency’s March 12 Open Door Forum, noting several important points about the...

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