PYA Principal Valerie Rock was recently quoted in “MACs Move Codes from LCDs to Local Coverage Articles; TPEs May Be Based on the Latter,” an article about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) move CPT and ICD-10-CM codes from local coverage determinations (LCDs) to local coverage articles and the effect that is having on providers.
Article Excerpt:
[Valerie] Rock thinks [the change] seems like an improvement because hospitals won’t have to sort through clinical policy language to find the codes that are covered for a service that has been ordered for the patient. “Coding and billing policies are not clinical issues, and [CMS] wanted to move that to a separate document,” she explains.
Read the full article from the Report on Medicare Compliance, a publication of the Health Care Compliance Association.
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