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National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) code set updates.

The purpose of this Change Request (CR) is to provide direction to the
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) Common Electronic Data
Interchange (CEDI) contractor and the ViPS Medicare System (VMS) shared system maintainer to perform
an analysis on all external codes list necessary for editing purposes of the new D.0 NCPDP standard, and
make all necessary changes to internal code tables.

Download the Guidance Document

Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: November 05, 2010

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