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CPT® 2013:

99495-99496 Capture Your Surgeon's Transitional Care Management

Published on Fri Jun 14, 2013

Clarify reporting details with CMS FAQs. When your general surgeon oversees a very ill patient’s transfer from facility to home, you didn’t have a way to claim that service until CPT® 2013 added two new transitional care management (TCM) codes. If questions about when and how to use these codes has stopped you from securing the pay your surgeon deserves, [...]
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