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Check Out 2 Coumadin Coverage Rules

Published on Tue Jun 11, 2019

Don’t miss management pay. With the need to oversee coagulation in approximately 20 million people taking warfarin (trade name Coumadin) in the U.S. each year, your lab may encounter lots of claims for prothrombin time (PT)/international normalized ratio (INR) lab tests and other monitoring services. Medicare sets the bar for all this PT/INR management with two National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) [...]
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