Your patient advocacy committee continues to actively and aggressively defend denial of various CPT codes and their reimbursement by Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and various third party carriers. We continue to obtain legal advice through the firm of Hogan and Hartson in Washington, D.C. Ms. Laura Loeb and Ms. Beth Roberts provide us with legal documentation that serves to substantiate our initiatives. These endeavors are costly and therefore a substantial portion of the Society's funds obtained from your dues is utilized to cover these costs. However, the return to our membership justifies this expense.

We continue to defend reimbursement for 31237 and 61795. The web site (click here) contains information that our membership can employ to substantiate any grievances with carriers.

In addition, please feel free to contact me directly at joseph.jacobs@med.nyu.edu or by phone (212-263-7398).

The ARS Patient Advocacy consists of Drs. Stephen Marks, Brent Senior, Winston Vaughn and Dan Becker.

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