HealthLeaders Media September 14, 2022
Amanda Norris

CMS is receiving pushback on its plan to create three new prolonged services codes.

Healthcare stakeholders, ranging from specialty societies to individual coding consultants, have urged CMS to abandon its plan to create three new prolonged services codes in comments submitted in response to the proposed 2023 Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS).

Industry stakeholders described the three-code proposal for prolonged services as disappointing, burdensome, and confusing, according to Part B News.

For example, the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons said it was disappointed that CMS did not intend to accept the CPT® coding update to prolonged services and expressed concerns that two coding systems “will create administrative burden and undue confusion on the part of healthcare providers and...

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