Is Medicare now reimbursing the new codes?
Yes. Medicare recognized the codes as eligible for reimbursement effective January 1, 2002. Some reimbursement problems were initially apparent when a carrier considered the services to be preventive in nature. Following intervention by the APA Practice Directorate, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instructed the carrier to issue a corrected notice stating that services under the codes were not preventive and therefore would be paid by Medicare.
