tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 29

Physician Note: CMS Issues New 'Centralized Flu' NPP Specialty Code

Plus: Court case shines the focus on how hospice patients can appeal denials.If you were beginning to think that CMS had a specialty code for almost everything, you may have been right. The agency recently announced that it would be issuing new specialty code 'C1' to designate non-physician practitioners whose primary specialty is "centralized flu."Although CMS does not expound on how to use the specialty code, most analysts believe that it will be used by facilities that perform mass flu immunizations. The new code will not be billable until midway through the upcoming flu season, since it...

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