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93224-93226 Offer Opportunity for a Little Extra Cash

Published on Tue Feb 15, 2011

The catch is you have to make the request for your rightful dollars.Medicare's April update to the physician fee schedule brings a little good news. Three Holter monitor codes will get a slight boost in pay.The change has an implementation date of April 4, 2011, and an effective date of Jan. 1, 2011. That means contractors have to be ready to comply with the change by April 4, but the change in practice expense relative value units (PE RVUs) is retroactive to Jan. 1 dates of service.Action plan: Medicare isn't requiring contractors to search their files to adjust claims they have already paid (which is good news for any physician who reports a code seeing a fee decrease). But contractors do have to adjust claims if you bring them to their attention. Take a look at how many 93224-93227 services you provided from January to March to see if making [...]
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