When re-testing Covid-19 specimens to check for variants, Medicare has indicated you may bill U0004 for the second-run of a high-throughput test. For example, if a specimen tests positive, you may run the sample again to check for variants and bill U0004 (or the same...
When CMS announced its intent to reduce payments for high-throughput COVID-19 tests next year while offering providers a path to be made whole if they met new turnaround time targets, several questions arose concerning how the agency intended to monitor its new...