2025-20330Notice

Medicare Codes Meeting: Virtual Chat on Billing Tweaks

Published Date: 11/19/2025

Notice

Summary

Medicare is hosting a virtual public meeting on December 17-18, 2025, to talk about updates to the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes. These codes help decide how Medicare pays for medical equipment and services that aren’t drugs or biological products. If you’re a healthcare provider or supplier, this meeting could affect how your services get coded and paid starting next year.

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HCPCS coding may change Medicare payments

CMS will hold a virtual public meeting on December 17, 2025 (overflow December 18, 2025) to review preliminary HCPCS Level II coding, Medicare benefit category, and Medicare payment determinations for non-drug and non-biological items and services. If you are a healthcare provider or supplier, this could affect how Medicare Part B pays for items such as durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetic devices, orthotics and prosthetics, therapeutic shoes and inserts, surgical dressings, and splints/casts. Speakers who want to participate must register by 5 p.m. ET on December 3, 2025, and written comments are due by 5 p.m. ET on December 19, 2025.

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Key Dates

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Effective Date
11/19/2025
12/17/2025

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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