Pay-per-view: CMS and AMA offer conflicting instructions in 2014 releases
APCs Insider, May 2, 2014
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Since January, providers have been struggling to reconcile conflicts between CMS' rules and regulations and those published by the CPT® Manual and other AMA publications.
In addition to confusion over billing for clinical laboratory tests and issues related to observation status and the 2-midnight criteria, providers have also been grappling with several contradictions between CMS and the AMA.
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