Practitioner Billing for No Cost Items

67.1 – Practitioner Billing for No Cost Items (Rev. 1657, Issued: 12-31-08, Effective: 01-01-09, Implementation: 01-05-09) Practitioners typically should not bill for no cost items as there is no non-covered charges field on the claim and there are also no system edits in place to require providers to do so. However, practitioners are required to report Category A IDE devices received at no cost on claims as specified in §68.3 of this chapter (although they will not receive payment).