CMS has instructed its contractors to implement new reasonable useful lifetime policy for stationary and portable oxygen equipment, effective May 8, according to an AAPC release.
The policy change applies to instances where a Medicare patient has both portable and stationary oxygen equipment and the RUL for one piece of equipment expires before the other. When this occurs, contractors have been told to shorten or extend the RUL of the portable oxygen equipment (identified by HCPCS Level II codes E0431, E4034, E1392, K0738 and E0433) to match the expiration period of the stationary oxygen equipment (identified by HCPCS Level II codes E0424, E0439, E1390, E1405 and E1406).
Read CMS Transmittal 871, Change Request 7213, for more complete detail.
Read the AAPC release on portable oxygen equipment.
Read more on coding, billing and collections:
-CMS Reassigns HCPCS Code Q1003 to a Deleted Payment Indicator: Q&A With Cristina Bentin of Coding Compliance Management
-Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Reporting Perioperative Peripheral Nerve Blocks
-Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion Procedures
The policy change applies to instances where a Medicare patient has both portable and stationary oxygen equipment and the RUL for one piece of equipment expires before the other. When this occurs, contractors have been told to shorten or extend the RUL of the portable oxygen equipment (identified by HCPCS Level II codes E0431, E4034, E1392, K0738 and E0433) to match the expiration period of the stationary oxygen equipment (identified by HCPCS Level II codes E0424, E0439, E1390, E1405 and E1406).
Read CMS Transmittal 871, Change Request 7213, for more complete detail.
Read the AAPC release on portable oxygen equipment.
Read more on coding, billing and collections:
-CMS Reassigns HCPCS Code Q1003 to a Deleted Payment Indicator: Q&A With Cristina Bentin of Coding Compliance Management
-Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Reporting Perioperative Peripheral Nerve Blocks
-Surgery Center Coding Guidance: Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion Procedures