Self-Administration of Drugs or Biologicals and Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC)

CMS recently released Transmittal 123 (Change Request 6950) on April 30, 2010 on Determining Self-Administration of Drugs or Biologicals which took effect on April 30, 2010. Transmittal 123 provided contractors with updates to manual language related to the determination of self-administration of drugs and biologicals, to allow for other routes of administration besides injections to be considered as not usually self-administered based on some new drugs that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration.