Part B Carrier Summary Data File
Guidance for Part B Carrier Summary Data File. It includes a description of summarization and labeling of data sets.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: September 04, 2020
Data sets are summarized at the carrier level by meaningful Healthcare Common Procedure Coding/Current Procedural Terminology, (HCPC/CPT), code ranges. The data set name contains the year followed by a carrier number. Within each code range are, procedural, condition, or description subheadings. Each data set displays the allowed services, allowed charges, payment amounts by HCPCS/CPT codes and prominent modifiers.
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