tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 44

Reimbursement: CMS Avoids Coverage For Substance Abuse Codes

Medicare also gives no payment to several new CPT codes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2008 Fee Schedule earlier this month, and it spells trouble for practices that report several of the new CPT codes.Cardiology: CMS assigned a status of "R," or "restricted," to new code 93982 for noninvasive study of implanted wireless pressure sensor in aneurysmal sac following endovascular repair. CMS restricted the code be-cause the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently approves these studies only at the time of an endovascular repair, and doesn't cover them for follow-up pressure...

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