tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 43

Coverage: Medicare Hangs Up On Phone, Online E/M

Anticoagulation management is still bundled for 2008 Don't get too excited about some of the new evaluation and management codes in CPT 2008, because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) doesn't share your enthusiasm. Medicare won't cover new telephone and online E/M codes 98966-98969 and 99441-99444 at all. The services aren't face-to-face, and the codes include services to people other than the patient, such as the patient's guardian, CMS says in the 2008 physician fee schedule final rule. This is yet another example of the old adage: "Just because there is a code, does not mean you...

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