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What billing code to use for state Newborn Screening Test Kits?

For services prior to Jan. 1, 2001, each individual carrier has a different coding methodology for billing this service.

Effective Jan. 1, 2001 and after, HCPCS code S3620 was implemented for Newborn Metabolic Screenings.

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The malaise in physician practice long known as burnout – a term doctors increasingly balk at – has been exacerbated by the pandemic, as an extensive survey by the Physicians Foundation recently showed. Although proposed solutions offer hope, doctors have toiled through everything from the day-to-day stress of overwork and the fear of contracting coronavirus themselves, to the lack of adequate PPE, and the politicization of the virus. It’s added up to members of the profession becoming exhausted, fearful, and sometimes despondent. Plus ... learn how some physicians are helping to take on an increasing social determinant of health: food insecurity.

 

 

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