tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 23

PART B PAYMENT: 2010 Fee Schedule Slices Pay For Cardiology, Nuclear Medicine, Audiology, And Other Specialties

But some specialties will benefit from pay boosts. As if a 21.2 percent payment cut wasn't enough, CMS targets several specialties that will suffer considerably in 2010, according to the new Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, published early online in the Federal Register. To lessen the impact to the specialties, CMS will transition the RVU changes over a four-year period, and estimates that specialists in the cardiology, nuclear medicine, and audiology fields will absorb the most pain over those four years. For instance, nuclear medicine specialists will see their reimbursement drop by 18 percent in 2010, and by...

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