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NCDs:

Integrate Diagnosis Changes into Your Coverage Rules

Published on Tue Feb 11, 2020

Avoid using truncated codes. Dragging your feet to incorporate the latest ICD-10-CM codes could lead to denials for services covered by Medicare National Coverage Determinations (NCDs). Change Request (CR) 11491 describes changes to four NCDs that might impact coverage for procedures carried out by your pathologist or clinical laboratory. Read on to see what you need to do by the [...]
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