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Check For These Diagnosis Codes To Support Insulin Injection Need

Published on Fri May 01, 2015

Some codes missing from CMS’s list may surprise you. Wondering exactly which patients the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services thinks should be eligible to receive visits for daily insulin injections? Look no further than the 2015 prospective payment system final rule. Table 34 in the rule outlines the diagnosis codes CMS believes indicate a potential inability to self-inject insulin. [...]
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