Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Medicare Makes Minor Corrections
Published on Mon Apr 05, 2004 
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In the March 26 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services makes a number of technical corrections to 2004 Medicare physician payments. Addendum F, concerning physician self-referral prohibitions, should have included HCPCS Codes G0328 for fecal blood screening, but shouldn't have included G0246 (Prostate brachy w/ palladium) and G0261 (... w/ rad).
CMS also incorrectly stated that it agreed with the Relative Value Scale Update Committee's recommendation to have carriers price donor hepatectomy code 47133, which in fact should be included in payments to the organ procurement facility.
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