The American Medical Association (AMA) publishes an annual Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual each fall outlining new, revised, and deleted procedural codes effective January 1 of the following calendar year. (For complete information regarding all code and description changes, refer to the 2018 edition of Current Procedural Terminology.) N.C. Medicaid reviews these codes changes to determine clinical coverage for the Medicaid program.
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Effective Feb. 1, 2018, N.C. Medicaid will cover balloon sinus ostial dilatation (BOD) surgery. The BOD policy will outline the new coverage for applicable CPT procedure codes.
Note: This article was previously published in the September 2017 Medicaid Bulletin. It is being republished with updates.
Note: This article was originally published in the October 2017 Medicaid Bulletin. This is the final Medicaid Bulletin publication.
‘High risk” individual providers and provider organizations, as outlined in NC General Statute 108C-3g, and individual owners with 5 percent or more direct or indirect ownership interest in a “high risk” organization are required to submit fingerprints to the N.C. Medicaid program.
Note: This article is being republished monthly. It was originally published in the December 2017 Medicaid Bulletin with revisions.