Physician's Coding Strategist: HCFA creates new technology APCs
Physician's Coding Strategist
HCFA creates new technology APCs
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has created 11 new technology ambulatory payment classifications (APCs) applicable only to new technology devices (0987-0997). With the new APCs, HCFA wants to differentiate between new technology services and devices, the agency says in its program memorandum, (PM) A-00-61.
The PM also contains a list of long descriptors for drugs, biologicals, devices eligible for transitional pass-through payments, and for all items classified in "new technology" APCs under the outpatient prospective payment system. In addition, the PM also corrects C codes that were listed in Transmittal A-00-42. Here are the corrected C codes:
• old code: C1108, C1600, C1601;
• new code: C1810, C1850, C1851.
The PM also states that code C1005 (Intraocular lens, Sensar Soft Acrylic Posterior Chamber IOL) could only be used to bill for pass-through payments for services beginning Aug. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2000.
For a look at the entire PM, visit the Web site www.hcfa.gov/pubforms.
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