HCPro.com: APCs Weekly Monitor

This HTML-based e-mail newsletter provides weekly tips and advice on the new ambulatory payment classifications regulations. Topics include the outpatient code editor (OCE), complex coding issues, beneficiary co-payment discounting, and cross-department APCs tracking.

November 21, 2008 (Volume 9, Issue 48)

Tip: Medicare proposes revised coverage policy for bariatric surgery for diabetes
Tip: Medicare proposes revised coverage policy for bariatric surgery for diabetes

PPV: HHS dates for version 5010 and code set spark controversy
PPV: HHS dates for version 5010 and code set spark controversy

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Other recently-published articles from APCs Weekly Monitor:

B&O suppositories as self-administered drugs

Tip: Medicare proposes revised coverage policy for bariatric surgery for diabetes

PPV: HHS dates for version 5010 and code set spark controversy

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Report EKGs done before or after--but not during--cardiac catheterization with modifier -59

Tip: CMS releases 2009 HCPCS level II updates

PPV: Make determinations for self-administered drugs: Plan for best practices

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Charge CPT procedure codes to inpatients under certain conditions

Tip: CMS releases 2009 OPPS final rule

PPV: differentiate transfers, flaps, and grafting procedures

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Use revenue code plus CPT, without HCPCS, to bill albuterol or Duoneb via nebulizer

Tip: Address coder shortage with an apprentice program

PPV: Opinions on proposed payment changes to type B EDs vary

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