tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 29

REIMBURSEMENT: You Could Lose All Your Payments For 93325 Next Year

Keep an eye out: CPT 2009 may contain new combined echocardiography codeA provision in the 2008 Physician Fee Schedule proposal could snuff out your reimbursement for color flow Doppler (CPT code 93325).The proposal: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to bundle 93325 into all of the other echocardiogram base codes. This will have a significant impact on echocardiography providers, as well as patient care and safety, wrote Ariel Soffer, a physician with the Holly-wood, FL-based Florida Institute for Cardiovascular Care in his comments on the proposed regulation. -It is imperative that CMS understand the additional...

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