When two bombs went off eight seconds apart at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, there were many emergency plans in place. "There's an emergency disaster plan in place for both the city and the marathon itself," says Peter Moran, RN, BSN, MSN, CCM, emergency room case manager at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. In addition, each hospital has its own emergency process in place.
The AMA revamped coding for molecular pathology beginning in 2012 and continuing in the 2013 CPT ® Manual. Now CMS is trying to determine how to pay for those tests and the agency wants to hear from providers.
