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Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

Reimbursement:

Bill It Right for the Supply Items

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2016

Do not report HCPCS codes for CMS deemed supplies. Supply categorization for hospitals is a chargemaster issue that involves inpatient, outpatient, and even physician billing and payment – which means it’s important to everyone. “This issue is not at all straightforward,” according to Duane C. Abbey, PhD, president of Abbey and Abbey Consultants Inc., in Ames, IA. “Federal Register language [...]
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