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CodeMap® 12/22/2022: Specimen Collection Reimbursement

CodeMap® Compliance Briefing: December 22, 2022


Editor's Welcome: 

We are delivering good news in today's CodeMap® Compliance Briefing. CMS has announced that it is significantly increasing the Medicare reimbursement for specimen collection for the first time since 1984. This move is a welcome holiday gift for any provider that performs specimen collection, primarily venipunctures, for clinical laboratory services. Today, we will explain in detail the increase in reimbursement as well as review the basic rules that govern coding, reporting, and submitting claims for specimen collection. As always, please send us your comments, suggestions, and questio....

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