Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
COVERAGE:
LOCM Get New Code Set
Published on Wed Mar 09, 2005
CMS unveiled Q codes in March.
Providers who routinely bill for low osmolar contrast material (LOCM) and other contrast agents need to be aware of a series of new codes.
Why? In early March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced the code set Q9945-9957. This code set is for LOCM, gadolinium-based magnetic resonance contrast agent, and several other types of contrast agents.
See for yourself: The details are in Transmittal 502, issued March 11.
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