The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is restoring a pair of common working file edits that will make sure coverage limits on therapeutic shoe inserts get applied. In a Jan. 23 one-time notification (change request 3029), CMS adds HCPCS codes K0628 and K0629 - which replace the A codes that previously applied to inserts - to existing diabetic shoe edits. In other recent program transmittals, CMS:
unveils plans to collect occupational mix data for short-term acute care hospitals (CR 3043);
corrects the effective date for nine cardiology code pairs in Correct Coding Initiative Version 2.3...
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