Industry Note:
Note This LCD Coding Change
Published on Fri Oct 11, 2019
Don’t expect to get diagnosis coding specifics in your Local Coverage Decisions going forward. “It is no longer appropriate to include Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) codes or International Classification of Diseases-Tenth Revision-Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes in the LCDs,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in an update to the Medicare Program Integrity Manual’s chapter on LCDs. “All CPT and ICD-10-CM codes shall [...]