New Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Modifiers when Billing for Patient Care in Clinical Research Studies
This article is based on Change Request (CR) 5805. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is discontinuing the QA (FDA Investigational Device Exemption), QR (Item or Service Provided in a Medicare Specified Study), and QV (Item or Service Provided as Routine Care in a Medicare Qualifying Clinical Trial) HCPCS modifiers as of December 31, 2007, and creating two new modifiers that will be used solely to differentiate between routine and investigational clinical services.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: January 18, 2008
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