INTERPRETIVE OR POLICY STATEMENT
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
Division of Legal Services
Subject: Outpatient hospital services: Fee schedule updates and policy changes.
Effective Date: July 1, 2010.
Document Description: Effective for dates of service on and after July 1, 2010, DSHS will update the outpatient hospitals and outpatient prospective payment system fee schedule with the updated medicare physician fee schedule data base year 2010 relative value units, current procedural terminology (CPT¦) codes, and healthcare common procedure coding system codes; and outpatient hospital services billing instructions with the policy changes outlined in this memo.
To receive a copy of the interpretive or policy statements, contact Amber Dassow, MPA, P.O. Box 45504, phone (360) 725-1349, TDD/TTY 1-800-848-5429, fax (360) 586-9727, e-mail dassoal@dshs.wa.gov, web site http://hrsa.dshs.wa.gov.