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tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 27
MEETNGS: CERT Contractors Halfway To Proper Contact System
Carriers can charge for running seminarsIf you've been trying to bill Medicare for new stereotactic radiosurgery code 0083T, then one hurdle to coverage has just been lifted.Part B carriers were denying claims for 0083T because they thought it was a Part A-only code, reports Linda Lively, president and CEO of American Medical Accounting & Consulting in Atlanta. The code describes physician services, but the carriers had categorized it incorrectly. Lively raised this concern at the July 15 Medicare physician Open Door Forum conference call. And shortly afterward, she heard from Part B carrier Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield...
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