New Modifiers Created
CMS has discontinued the QA, QR and QV HCPCS modifiers.
They have created the “Q0” modifier to identify investigational
services provided in a clinical research study and the “Q1”
modifier to identify routine clinical services provided in a clinical
research study.
The Q0 modifier replaces QA and QR. The Q1 modifier replaces
QV. All claims submitted for patient care in clinical research
studies must use the two new modifiers for routine and investigational
clinical services. Effective for dates of service on or
after January 1, 2008, claims submitted with the discontinued
modifiers will be processed as return-to-provider/return as
unprocessable.
The Transmittal can be found by going to
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Transmittals/Downloads/R1418CP.pdf |