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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

APC Packaging:

Ancillary Services and Clinical Diagnostic Tests will Be Bundled with Minor Procedures

Published on Wed Dec 23, 2015

Assigned status indicator will determine what will be paid separately CMS has again increased packaging in support of its strategic goal of using larger payment bundles in the OPPS to maximize hospitals’ incentives to provide care in the most efficient manner. Packaging will include payments for items and services that are typically integral, ancillary, supportive, dependent, or adjunctive to a [...]
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