tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2009 Issue 11

Calculate How the Fee Schedule Changes Affect Your Pay

Your surgeon will likely feel the pain more than his internal med colleagues. As you read in the previous article, CMS's proposed 2010 fee schedule seeks to eliminate payment for consultation codes. So how will that affect your bottom line? Here's what the experts think you should know. Double-Digit Rate Cut Is a Factor, Too Part of the CMS proposal seeks to increase the work relative value units (RVUs) for new (99201-99205, Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient ...) and established office visits (99211-99215, Office or other outpatient visit for the...

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