Better Brachytherapy Reporting Would Improve OPPS Payments – CAB
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A CMS program memo detailing how brachytherapy high-dose radiation sources, catheters and needles should be reported is necessary to improve OPPS claims data, according to the Coalition for the Advancement of Brachytherapy
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