The American Academy for Physician Assistants has posted a list of procedure codes that Medicare will not reimburse physician assistants for in 2011.
Procedures that require physician assistants in fewer than five percent of occurrences are non-reimbursable.
AAPA used data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' National Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File to compile their list. CMS posted the first 2011 list in January and has since revised the document twice, most recently for the April 2011 release.
Read the AAPA report (pdf).
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Procedures that require physician assistants in fewer than five percent of occurrences are non-reimbursable.
AAPA used data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' National Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File to compile their list. CMS posted the first 2011 list in January and has since revised the document twice, most recently for the April 2011 release.
Read the AAPA report (pdf).
Read more coverage on coding, billing and collections:
- CMS Prepares to Survey Providers on ICD-10, 5010
- California Ambulatory Surgery Association Fights Proposed Workers' Comp Reductions
- Ophthalmologists' Reimbursement for Optical Coherence Tomography Drops in 2011