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Good News for Bilateral 36222-+36228

Published on Thu Mar 07, 2013

Medicare’s April update to the Physician Fee Schedule corrects the bilateral status of cervicocerebral angiography codes 36222-+36228, changing the status to 1. That means the 150 percent payment adjustment will now apply to bilateral services. Learn more in the Reader Question "36223 Covers Extracranial With Intracranial" on page 29.
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