Illegal loggers at the frontier of the Peruvian and Brazilian border have mistakenly cut down what experts claim is the world's oldest tree after allegedly not noticing they were logging deeply in Matses Indigenous Reserve, an area were logging is illegal, infuriating local conservation organizations and native indigenous communities.
When benefits allow, Kaiser Permanente will reimburse assistant surgeon charges when the procedure. code is eligible for assistant surgeon reimbursement per Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (CMS) guidelines. Eligible services w hen billed with modifier 80, 81, or 82 will be reimbursed at 16% of. the allowable and when billed with modifier AS will be reimbursed at 13.6% of the allowable.
In 2013 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a new claims - based data collection requirement for outpatient therapy services. CMS requires reporting with 42 new non payable functional G -codes and 7 new modifiers on claims for Physical Therapy (PT), Occupational Therapy (OT) and Speech Language Pathology (SLP) services. As part of the. change, CMS is again requiring the GP, GO & GN modifiers be billed for informational. purposes. To align with CMSâs change, we will implement this requirement to allow for. consistency in claims processing.