INTERPRETIVE AND POLICY STATEMENT
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
Subject: Kidney center services - updates.
Effective Date: March 23, 2004.
Document Description: Retroactive to dates of service on and after January 1, 2004, the Medical Assistance Administration (MAA) began using the 2004 CPT™ and Year 2004 HCPCS Level II code additions. This memorandum presents a review of those changes.
This memorandum also includes the following updates:
• Maximum allowable fees for the year 2004 additions, and some fee changes;
• Place of service code changes;
• Vaccine information;
• Unlisted drug code information; and
• Technical changes.
To receive a copy of the interpretive or policy statement, contact Barbara Salmon, Rules and Publications Section, Department of Social and Health Services, Medical Assistance Administration, Division of Policy and Analysis, P.O. Box 45533, Olympia, WA 98504-5533, phone (360) 725-1349 or go to website http://maa.dshs.wa.gov/download/publicationsfees.htm (click on "Numbered Memos," "Year 2003"), TDD 1-800-848-5429, fax (360) 586-9727, e-mail salmobl@dshs.wa.gov.
March 29, 2004
E. A. Myers, Manager
Rules and Publications Section