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Important updates to the three-day payment window
On January 4, 2013, CMS updated the three-day payment window section of the inpatient chapter of the Claims Processing Manual. Kimberly Anderwood Hoy,JD, CPC, director of Medicare and compliance for HCPro, Inc, in Danvers, Mass, reviews thenew sections which clarify two outstanding questions regarding services in the three-day payment window. She also discusses the update the CPT codes for cardiology procedures considered diagnostic.
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