tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 13

Part B Coding Coach: Make the Most of April Updates to Angiography, Extracorporeal Circulation, and TED

All three changes are retroactive to January 1. Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) corrections are offering new payment opportunities this spring. But you’ll need to do a little work if you want to take full advantage of the changes below. 1. Act to Capture 2013 Bilateral 36222-+36228 Payment The April MPFS update corrects the bilateral indicator for cervicocerebral angiography codes 36222-+36228. CPT® defines the codes as unilateral, which means each code is designed to represent the work required for a service on just one side of the body. But CMS’s original bilateral indicator, 0, essentially resulted in...

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