Payers will always invent excuses to reject claims. However in my experience the CPT description is not submitted as part of a claim.
Rod www.sunsetsystems.com On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:53, Peter Holt Hoffman wrote: > I have a question about this though: don't at least some payers > reject claims where the description is not 100% identical to what the > AMA publishes? > > -- Peter. > > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think, then, a good web-based community project would be the > > creation of a whole new set of codes and descriptions. However the > > codes would happen to map one-to-one with the CPT codes, and the > > mapping would be created/shared only among those with CPT licenses. > > > > Publications that reference CPT codes could be trivially changed to > > reference the new codes, and individual practitioners would have no > > need or use for the mapping table or anything else containing CPT > > codes. > > > > Rod > > www.sunsetsystems.com
