Quarterly Update of HCPCS Codes Used for Home Health Consolidated Billing Enforcement
This article, based on Change Request (CR) 9192, provides the quarterly update to the list of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes used by Medicare systems to enforce consolidated billing of HH services. CR 9192 announces the addition of HCPCS codes 97607 and 97608, negative pressure wound therapies, to the HH consolidated billing therapy code list, effective for services on or after October 1, 2015. These codes replace codes G0456 and G0457, negative pressure wound therapies, which are deleted from the HH consolidated billing therapy code list. In addition, code A7048 replaces code A7043 on the HH Consoilidated billing non-routine supply code list, effective for services on or after October 1, 2015.
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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: May 29, 2015
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