| Subject: | CMS Advises Providers About the Holding of Certain Screening Pap Smear Claims |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Fri, 5 Sep 2008 - 08:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that, due to systems issues, they will be instructing their contractors to hold all claims containing Healthcare Common Procedure Coding (CPCS) code Q0091 submitted by hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) facilities until the successful implementation of the Outpatient Code Editor (OCE), currently scheduled for January 5, 2009.According to CMS, the issues are related to an incorrect deductible and coinsurance... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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