Effective Date: July 1, 2008

Implementation Date: July 7, 2008

CR 5972, from which this article is taken, updates the sections of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual that address prolonged services codes, in order to be consistent with changes/deletions in codes and changes in typical/average time units in the American Medical Association Current Terminology Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding system.

Summaries of these manual changes are outlined.

Here is the link to the MLN Matters article MM5972