decisionhealth Newsletters, Part B News - 2011 Issue 12 (December)
Primary care services to see pay boost in 2012, imaging pay dips
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Article Overview
This article reviews how the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule affects physician payment trends across specialties, especially primary care and imaging. It explains the broader context of RVU recalculation and the transition to a new practice expense dataset, and it includes summary tables showing payment changes over time for selected evaluation and management and imaging services. The piece is aimed at physicians, coders, and reimbursement professionals who need to understand which service categories are trending up or down under the final 2012 fee schedule.
Why This Topic Matters
Payment updates under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule can affect revenue planning, specialty mix, and coding-related reimbursement expectations. Readers can use the article to understand the scope of 2012 rate changes and to identify which service families are being discussed before reviewing the full analysis.
Article Sections
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Final fee schedule
Overview of the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the reasons the article highlights for expected payment movement across service categories. Introduces the broader RVU and dataset transition context.
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RVU and payment changes for top E/M codes, 2009-2013
A comparative table of selected evaluation and management services showing payment trends across multiple years and the 2012 blended-year context.
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RVU and payment changes for top billed imaging codes, 2009-2013
A comparative table of selected imaging services showing payment trends across multiple years and the 2012 blended-year context.
What You Will Learn
- How the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is framed in the article
- Which broad specialty groups are described as seeing payment increases or decreases
- How the article presents the transition from older data to the new practice expense dataset
- What types of services are summarized in the payment trend tables
- How the article contextualizes RVU and payment changes over multiple years
Who Should Read This
- Physicians
- Medical coders
- Billing staff
- Revenue cycle professionals
- Practice administrators
- Reimbursement analysts
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