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Pay-per-view: CMS refines skin substitute packaging

APCs Insider, June 13, 2014

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CMS made relatively few changes in the April quarterly I/OCE update, introducing four new APCs, deleting one, and reclassifying several skin substitute codes.
 
"This is what I refer to as an 'off quarter,' " says Dave Fee, MBA, product marketing manager at 3M Health Information Systems, in Murray, Utah. CMS' extensive January changes are often followed by modest updates in the next quarter.
 
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