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See How POS 19 Could Impact Your Pathology Pay

Published on Fri May 06, 2016

Understand “off-campus” clinics. You should currently be using one new and one updated place of service (POS) code to bill Medicare for your pathology and laboratory outpatient services, as of Jan. 1. Crucial: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made the POS code change to avoid overpaying for services provided at off-campus hospital-based or provider-based clinics. Let us walk [...]
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