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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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Medicare Claims Processing Transmittal 1597, dated September 12, 2008, is being rescinded and replaced by Transmittal 1628, dated November 3, 2008. A new C-Code, C9899, was not included until the release of the HCPCS contractor File. All other information remains the same.

Date of Insight Article

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

What you need to know and action needed

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