HOSPITALS: April OPPS Offers An Array Of Coding, Policy Changes
Use C9723 when reporting blood perfusion imaging to Medicare.Hospitals can anticipate payment for a wider variety of outpatient prospective payment system claims - and a lot of policy changes.In an April Medlearn Matters article, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a laundry list of payment changes for the OPPS April 2005 update. Now hospitals can get reimbursement under OPPS using these new codes:
C9723 (Dynamic infrared blood perfusion imaging) and C9724 (Endoscopic full-thickness plication in the gastric cardia using endoscopic plication system;includes endoscopy).
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