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Tip: Say goodbye to Medicare payments for IDETs
Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, November 18, 2008
Have you looked at the Medicare ASC list for 2009 yet? After December 31, Medicare will no longer pay you to perform percutaneous intradiscal electrothermal (IDET) annuloplasty procedures. As of January 1, 2009, all four of these procedures are no longer on the list of Medicare covered procedures.
This includes codes 22526 and 22527 for the IDETs procedure performed using an electrothermal device as well as CPT category III (emerging technology) codes 0062T and 0063T.
The four codes are still valid CPT codes for 2009, however, so you may still bill them to payers other than Medicare.
This tip is brought to you by Ellis Medical Consulting, Inc.
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