tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 37

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• You no longer have to think of clinical staff work preparing vaccines as a freebie service. CMS had originally said that it would not pay for clinical staff time spent for vaccine administration quality assurance, noted Amy Bassano, MA, director of CMS hospital and ambulatory policy group in the presentation, "Medicare Physician Payment Schedule 2009 Changes and Beyond" at the CPT and RBRVS 2009 Annual Symposium in Chicago. "But when we looked at other similar services, we realized the relative value units included that time," she said. So CMS added that into immunization administration codes 90465, 90467...

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