Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

Those private carriers that do not recognize CPT, HCPCS or ICD-9 codes will have an extra year to do so and meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requirement for uniform coding because of a new law (Public Law 107-105) that President Bush signed in December 2001.
 
This essentially means that use of the national data set of CPT, HCPCS and ICD-9 codes is not mandatory until Oct. 16, 2003, and that J codes will disappear in 2003 rather than 2002.