When this happens, a sterile, flexible tube called a urinary catheter is inserted into the urethra (where urine leaves the ...

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Effective October 15, a new Final Rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow the Medicare Shared Savings ...

2. Two intermittent urinary catheter codes are flagged as highly suspect, and payments for them are excluded. Codes are considered suspect when there is an unexplained spike in claims, either in ...

Without intervention, the urinary catheter scandal would “jeopardize the integrity of MSSP,” CMS explained. It details that two codes, both for different types of intermittent urinary ...

Urinary catheter placement in dogs may be necessary for certain surgical procedures or for treatment of certain conditions. This column describes the vaginoscopic placement of an indwelling female ...

The 2025 Physician Fee Schedule includes a methodology to address suspicious billing activity from 2024 onward. 2. The bill addressed two CPT codes identified as suspect: A4352, intermittent urinary ...

Taking a foundationally different approach to thrombus reduction, the company manufactures intravenous catheters from a hydrophilic material. Engineered to mimic the body’s natural chemistry ...

Medicare billing for codes A4352 and A4353, both intermittent urinary catheters, reached up to 20 times the usual historical average in 2023, swelling to $3.1 billion from just $153 million two ...

today announced findings from a proactive device evaluation showing a significant reduction in complications with a midline catheter made with its MIMIX® hydrophilic biomaterial (HBM), compared ...

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The popular pastime could be curtailed to save at-risk native species from extinction. The government has tripled the size of a marine park surrounding little-known Australian islands that teem ...