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Double Check Your Wage Index Code

Published on Fri Sep 25, 2020

A move to help ease provider burden with the new wage index designations will also complicate billing this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is adopting new Office of Management and Budget categories for wage index areas, and is capping any changes in value at 5 percent in fiscal year 2021 (see HCW by AAPC, Vol. XXIX, No. [...]
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