tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 10

CODING: Providers Celebrate PET Coding Move

CMS clears up deadline mystery Providers are cheering the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to phase out dozens of HCPCS codes for positron emission tomography (PET) scans and replace them with just 11 CPT codes. These include new codes 78811-78816, as well as 78459, 78491-78492 and 78608-78609. (See PBI, Vol. 6, No. 9.) The move is good news for a couple of reasons, says Jeff Fulkerson, senior certified coder in the radiology department at Emory Health Care in Stockbridge, GA. First of all, the CPT codes are based on the body area the physician scanned. "The...

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