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BCBS Reimbursement Policy Update: Bundled Services-Professional


Beginning with dates of service on or after November 1, 2019, new Inter-professional CPT codes 99451 and 99452 are not eligible for reimbursement when they are reported with another service or reported as a stand-alone service. 

These codes have been added to policy section 1 of the Bundled Services and Supplies reimbursement policy.

Source: https://providernews.anthem.com/indiana/article/reimbursement-policy-update-bundled-services-professional


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CMS Resurrects Bundled Payments

 CMS has said they plan on rolling out mandatory Medicare bundled payment models for cancer, and they are going to reconsider voluntary cardiac care bundled models, even though they had decided that cardiac care bundled care would not work. Bundled Models HHS Secretary Alex Azar indicated that although bundled payments for care is a voluntary […]

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Bundled Payments Reduce Care Cost

  Bundled payments seem to be cutting healthcare costs. One of the salient goals of the Affordable Care Act was to bring down the cost of care. As a result, the federal government attempted to assist in reducing the cost of care by implementing a program called Bundled Payments for procedures that are frequently performed […]
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Colectomy with abscess drainage 49020-59 Bundled?

So, doctors are on a 49020-59 roll and want it on all colectomy procedures that mention peritonitis, such as 44143 (Hartman’s). I specifically asked someone at a seminar this scenario and was told no:

If the doctor opens a patient and finds an abscess on one portion of intestine (say transverse), drains it, and then performs a Hartman’s (not involving the transverse), can we bill a 49020-59 with it?

If the doctor opens a patient and finds pus and fecal matter in the abdomen due to perforation, drains it, and then performs a Hartman’s, can we bill 49020-59?

I know my opinion/thoughts on it but don’t want to sway anyone with them.

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EGD and diagnostic lap bundled with whipple procedure

Please advise,
Following procedures was done :
1. a diagnostic laparoscopy, bundled
2. lysis of adhesions, bundled
3. whipple, 48150
4. EGD, bundled
5. omental flap, 49905

the procedure that is billable 48150-22 (Difficult due to lysis of adhesion) and omental flap 49905

Thank You

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