tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 9

Part B Payment: CMS Offers Bilateral Pay Boost for 10 Procedures

Plus: G9157 is now payable under the Fee Schedule. Not all fee schedule changes are bad news. In the case of the Q2 updates to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, CMS offers payment boosts for several procedures, including catheter placement and cardiac Doppler monitoring. Although the Q2 updates have an official implementation date of April 1, many of the changes are effective retroactive to Jan. 1, 2013. Bilateral Boosts You’ll now be able to collect more when you perform selective catheter placement (36222-36228) bilaterally. Previously, the bilateral procedure indicator on these codes was "0," which meant that...

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