OPPS Rule Establishes Separate Palladium, Iodine G Codes For Brachytherapy
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will establish two new G codes to track prostate brachytherapy procedures, under the 2003 hospital outpatient prospective payment system final rule
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