Accordingly, to establish a geometric mean cost for CPT codes 77407 and 77412 that better reflects the geometric mean costs under CPT codes 77385 and 77386, we have crosswalked the claims volume of CPT codes 77385, 77386, 77407, and 77412 in the following manner: For CPT code 77407, we are imputing all CY 2024 claims in CPT code 77407, the bottom 50 percent (with respect to total estimated cost) of single claims from CPT code 77412, and ( all of the claims from CPT code 77385
We are also finalizing, with modification, our proposal to require that hospitals use electronic data interchange (EDI) 835 electronic remittance advice (ERA) transaction data
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As body weight decreases, total daily energy expenditure decreases, and the deficit that produced rapid early weight loss narrows