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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

New Specialties Approved for Risk Adjustment

Effective January 2012, the following CMS Physician Specialties are approved for risk adjustment submission:

21 Electrophysiology
23 Sports Medicine
C0 Sleep Medicine

CMS has indicated that they will publish a complete specialty listing soon. When the listing is published, we'll post it to the Tools section of HCCUniversity.com

Posted by Stacey Hernandez, CCS-P at 3:35 PM No comments:

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Labels: Approved Specialties, CMS, Risk Adjustment

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