Wiki Medicare shoulder guidelines

[Paula19]

Has anyone heard that the Medicare proposal to have the shoulder seen as a single anatomic site has been removed from the Medicare final rule for 2020?

 

[roxannel]

But I also heard that they are not recognizing different compartments for 2020 either.
"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Policy Manual for Medicare Services for 2020. Specifically, the Arthroscopy section within Musculoskeletal System (Chapter IV) has been revised regarding the shoulder. Previous policy stated that CMS considers the shoulder to be a single anatomic structure. For 2020, this line has been deleted from the manual. While code pair edits remain for some shoulder arthroscopy procedures (eg, 29827, 29828) with limited debridement (eg, 29822), the AAOS applauds this change which it has advocated for since 2010 in conjunction with the following groups: the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the Arthroscopy Association of North America—both members of the Orthopaedic PAC Advisor's Circle—and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine."