ImpediMed Inc. Announced Medicare Payment For New L-Dex® Category I Code

BRISBANE, Australia & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ImpediMed (ASX:IPD) is pleased to announce today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the valuation for CPT® Category I Code 93702 for the Company’s L-Dex procedure for the assessment of lymphedema. Beginning January 1, 2015, physicians and hospitals will be able to seek reimbursement for the L-Dex procedure through this new CPT Category I code. CMS has assigned CPT code 93702 to the Outpatient Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) payment group 0097, which has a 2015 payment rate of $112.67 when billed by a hospital outpatient facility. Physician payment is based on "relative value units" (RVUs). CMS has assigned 3.21 RVUs to the L-Dex CPT Code (code 93702) resulting in an average national physician payment rate of $114.99.

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