tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 14

Coverage: Pacemaker Implantation Is No Longer Experimental

But renal failure no longer justifies urine culture If your practice treats patients with diabetes, renal failure or cardiac problems, then the latest set of coverage announcements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could be important to you.   On its coverage homepage at www.cms.hhs.gov/coverage, CMS:   announced its intention to remove ICD9 Codes 584.5 (Acute renal failure with lesion of tubular necrosis) 584.9 (Acute renal failure, unspecified) and 586 (Unspecified renal failure) from the list of covered diagnoses for bacterial urine cultures. CMS decided that these diagnoses "do not flow" from...

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