If you are a physician that does regular gastric by-pass procedures, you need to know that as of March 17th, Medicare will no longer reimburse the code 37216 which is transcatheter placement of intracatheter stents according to their latest transmittal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Other changes that are coming soon will be to the physician reimbursement fee schedule. New medical billing claims need to show code 37216 to have the status code of “R,” and carriers should adjust their systems to “reflect a non-coverage status” for this particular code. Another change in the gastric medical billing category will be to restrictive procedure code 43842 that will …