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Craneware Insights Articles communicate important regulatory changes to Medicare Outpatient billing, Chargemaster (CDM) and coding compliance. Craneware analyzes Transmittals and bulletins from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other organizations such as Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) and emails Insights Articles in a focused manner to alert customers to pertinent regulatory changes.

Regulatory News Topic

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CMS Change Request (CR) 3955 released September 9, 2005, updates Medicare Claims Processing Manual policies to reflect a change in the definition of diabetes mellitus for the purposes of billing Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT).

Date of Insight Article

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9-Nov-05

What you need to know and action needed

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