I can confirm this from doing my own billing in my practice. Only the
code numbers are used. The descriptions are not included, neither on
the printed CMS 1500 claim forms, nor the electronic ANSI X12 837 format.
Alex Caldwell
--- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Payers will always invent excuses to reject claims. However in my
experience the CPT description is not submitted as part of a claim.
Rod
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On Saturday 09 December 2006 14:53, Peter Holt Hoffman wrote:
> I have a question about this though: don't at least some payers
> rejec
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 w
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 co
Copyright covers "expressions" of ideas and as such covers the AMA's
descriptions. Theoretically, if you wrote different descriptions,
they would not be covered by the AMA copyright. However, the AMA has
been very aggressive in defending their monopoly on the codes so they
might threaten a commun
Thanks, Will!
These are good links, too. The links I sent got an extra '_' added at
the end which messed up
the links. If you remove that underscore, you can get to the documents
on the OMG site.
Dave
Will Ross wrote:
>
> The OMG link to the RFP documents is not working for me.
>
> Here's an
That leads me to ask: does the AMA claim copyright on the CPT codes
themselves, or just on the descriptions of the codes? If the latter,
I think there would be a lot of merit in a community project to
create and maintain new descriptions. I've been told that the AMA's
descriptions are not very ph
This reminds me of a similar situation in the UK with postcodes (their
equivalent of zip codes). Unlike the US where zip codes are in the public
domain, the British Post Office owns the postcode database and protects it
agressively.
An enterprising group of people recently started an initiative a
Look for more information on VistA at http://worldvista.org &
http://hardhats.org and downloads at.http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista
The VivitAs are ISO images ready to *boot* & run on a PC with a 512MB or larger
USB drive. The SemiVivA distributions are ready to load onto a PC that al
The AMA CPT codes have a tortuous history and are currently in a
legally ambiguous place supported by aggressive AMA lawyers. It is
similar to the legally tenuous position of the RIAA that they can
control what you can do with the music you have purchased.
A short history.
In testimony before co
The OMG link to the RFP documents is not working for me.
Here's an alternate link to the RFP for the EIS.
http://hssp-eis.wikispaces.com/
The corresponding wikispaces site for the RLUS has not been updated
with their RFP, but here it is anyway.
http://hssp-rlus.wikispaces.com/
As a fra
Tim Cook wrote:
>
> I should have provided a reference for my quote. It is from the
> "clickable" license agreement on the AMA site.
>
I should have probably also noted that they are available from the AMA
on CD in ASCII for less than $100 / year. So it would be cheaper to
purchase them than
Alex Caldwell wrote:
> Thanks Tim,
>
> I was going by the agreement on this page on the CMS site which links
> to the download for the Excel file:
>
> http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/ama/license.asp?file=http://new.cms.hhs.gov/apps/ama/report_xyz.pdf
>
> It did not seem to me as restrictive as what
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