CMS Proposes To Deny Most HCPCS Code Requests For DMEPOS Items

CMS met this week, and will again on June 3, to hear arguments in support of establishing new or revised level II HCPCS codes for 33 different durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics items and medical supplies. But in preliminary rulings the agency signaled plans to deny all but two of the requests.

CMS is proposing to deny most requests for new or revised level II Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System reimbursement codes in 2015.

Of the 33 separate durable medical equipment, prosthetics and orthotics items, as well as medical supplies, that are the subject...

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