Radiology Coding Alert
Re-Count the Months Between Screening Mammograms
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, for example, issued a policy update on Feb. 18 which states that carriers should base the patient's next annual screening mammography "beginning with the month after the month in which a screening mammography was performed and count until 11 full months have elapsed."
What to do: If you perform a screening mammogram in July 2004, you can perform your next screening mammogram as early as July 1, 2005.
You can read more about Medicare's screening mammography guidelines at the CMS Web site www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/R25OTN.pdf.
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