Good evening list members,
Has anyone heard if there is any new updated information from CMS on
consignment closets not being allowed in Physicians offices? My
understanding is that if an O and P office has been providing a Physician
the convenience of having a walking boot in their office to put directly
onto a fractured lower limb after a cast is removed from a Medicare patient.
That patient with a somewhat unstable fracture now has to come directly to
our office without a cast on, with a cast bi-valved and ace wrapped, or I
get to cut off the cast in my office, which is a non-billable event.
What are your thoughts on this, which is supposed to take place September 8,
2009?
Jeff A. Zeller, CP
