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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Common canine uroliths, including struvite, were covered during a session at the Fetch dvm360 Conference in Atlantic City ...

urinary retention and voiding dysfunction, and recurrent urinary incontinence Careful evaluation of the patient experiencing postoperative complications or recurrent urinary incontinence requires ...

the first step is to drain the urine and reduce pressure on the urinary tract by inserting a foley catheter — a thin tube that passes through the urethra into the bladder. If an infection is ...

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