Reflecting the Payment Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) on the Remittance Advice (RA)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was recently
made aware that the HCPCS APC, instead of the Payment APC, is being appended to the Remittance
Advice (RA). Because the HCPCS APC is not used to determine final payment, the RA may communicate
an APC assignment that does not correspond to the correct payment received by the provider.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: October 30, 2009
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