Frustrated Manufacturers Will Go To HCPCS Meetings With Few Expectations
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medical equipment manufacturers are pushing CMS to establish a more open and responsive process for assigning new reimbursement claims codes following what they consider to be fresh round of unwarranted coding denials for 2008
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