tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 6

Transmittals: Kiss Grace Period for New Codes Goodbye

HIPAA kills 90-day safety zoneFeeling tied up in knots by new coding requirements? Now you can blame the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for another layer of inflexibility. HIPAA requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to scrap the 90-day grace period that used to be in place for changes to HCPCS, CPT and ICD-9 codes, according to two new transmittals (Nos. 89 and 95).The grace period aimed to allow providers "to ascertain the new codes and learn about the discontinued codes," CMS says. HIPAA's "transaction and code set rule requires usage of the...

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