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Long Term Care & Senior Living Blog
May 26, 2016

Hospital Alert - Medicare Update Mandates the Use of Modifier JW for Billing Discarded Drug Waste

Discarded pharmaceuticals and the high cost of drugs continue to receive attention in the news, as well as from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In response to these concerns, CMS recently issued a mandate updating the use by hospitals of the JW modifier to document discarded drugs or biologicals in patient’s medical records.