tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 40

LABS: What The New Screening Regs Mean For Labs

Diabetes, heart disease screening changes will help labs in 2005.Next year labs won't always need signs, symptoms or disease diagnoses to get paid for 82947 and 80061.Medicare's proposed heart disease and diabetes screening rules explain when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cover these and other lab tests, and how to document the reason for the tests so labs can get reimbursed starting as early as Jan. 1, 2005. Last year's Medicare Modernization Act called for adding heart disease and diabetes screening, and CMS answered the call in the 2005 Physician Fee Schedule proposal...

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