tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 41

In other news…

Your diabetic patients may have more difficulty obtaining their test strips following an OIG crackdown on supplier billing for the items.Background: "Under Round 1 of CMS's Competitive Bidding Program, implemented in January 2011, non-mail order [diabetes test strips] in Competitive Bidding Areas (CBAs) are reimbursed at a rate more than double that of mail order DTS," the HHS Office of Inspector General explains in a new report. "This price difference provides a financial incentive for suppliers to bill for non-mail order rather than mail order DTS.""Claims in CBAs for the more expensive, non-mail order DTS increased...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.