HCPCS public meetings
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Only one of 45 requests for new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Level II codes for supplies and other durable medical equipment is granted in preliminary decisions from CMS. The agency is holding a public meeting on the preliminary decisions April 122-223 in Baltimore. The lone successful request comes from CircAid Medical Products for its T-3 M gradient compression surgical dressing system. Several antimicrobial dressings are denied requests for new codes based on CMS' contention that there is no clinical evidence of their superiority to other dressings with which they are now grouped. In the separate category of orthotics and prosthetics, CMS will hold a public meeting 3May 6 to discuss preliminary decisions granting one of 12 requests for new codes (4"The Gray Sheet" April 16, 2007, p. 4)
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