Pay-per-view: CMS releases update to correct and clarify comprehensive APC payments
APCs Insider, May 22, 2015
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CMS released updated I/OCE specifications in January with several changes that could require providers to examine claims submitted early in 2015 that include comprehensive APCs (C-APC) to ensure proper payment.
The agency clarified how certain code pairs should be ranked and made changes to add-on codes to ensure the application of complexity adjustments.
"CMS used the data set from 2013 [to create C-APCs], so some of the current codes didn't exist," and which led to these errors, says Dave Fee, MBA, content manager, applied research, at 3M Health Information Systems in Murray, Utah.
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