Home Health & Hospice Week
Therapy, Supplies Codes Added To HH Bundling List
Want to know which new supplies and therapy codes you’ll soon be responsible for under home health PPS bundling — including two existing codes that will be recategorized as bundled? Check out CMS’s Dec. 13 transmittal on the matter at .
Non-routine supplies: You’ll have to cover A7047 (Oral Interface Used With Respiratory Suction Pump, each); A6531 (Gradient Compres-sion Stocking, Below Knee, 30-40 MMHG, Each); and A6532 (Gradient Compression Stocking, Below Knee, 40-50 MMHG, Each).
"A7047 is a new HCPCS code in 2014," CMS notes. "Codes A6531 and A6532 are existing codes added due to their similarity to code A6545, which has been subject to HH consolidated billing since 2009."
Therapy: HH PPS rates must pay for 92521 (Evaluation of speech fluency [eg, stuttering, cluttering]); 92522 (Evaluation of speech sound production [eg, articulation, phonological process, apraxia, dysarthria]); 92523 (with evaluation of language comprehension and expression [eg, receptive and expressive language]); and 92524 (Behavioral and qualitative analysis of voice and resonance).
"These four new speech evaluation codes replace code 92506," CMS explains in CR 8359. The changes take effect April 1.
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