Medicare 2025 Inpatient Final Rule The Medicare 2025 Inpatient Final Rule was released on August 1, 2024. ISASS made significant comments to the proposed rule. Here is how those issues were addressed in the final rule: CMS proposed creating eight new MS-DRGs to delineate single versus multi-level lumbar fusion, as well as to accommodate the...
Medicare 2025 Outpatient and Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rules The Medicare 2025 Hospital Outpatient and Physician Proposed Rules were released earlier this month. ISASS will be commenting by September 9, 2024 on a number of spine surgery-related issues in the proposed Physician rule in particular, including the following: The osteotomy CPT codes (22210, 22212, 22214,...
New ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for Discogenic Pain As we noted in our last Advocacy Alert, the ICD-10 Coding Committee released a new set of diagnosis codes created specifically to describe intervertebral disc degeneration with discogenic pain. These new codes were finalized last month and are effective for reporting by physicians, hospitals, and ASC’s October 1, 2024. For more information...
September CPT Editorial Panel ISASS representatives will be attending the September CPT Editorial Panel meeting (19th-21st) in Albuquerque, NM to support an add-on code for the placement of an annular closure device (Barricaid), when clinically appropriate, post-discectomy. The September meeting will also include continued discussion about the SI joint CPT codes, seeking to clarify the...