tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 45

PHYSICIANS: Doctors Get Extra Document Postprocessing RVU

Likely pay cut offset by some RVU bumps.Physicians can't count on new CPT codes until Medicare "hatches" relative value units for them. Luckily, physicians' offices are pleased with many of the new reimbursement rates for new CPT codes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Management Services has released the RVUs for these codes as part of its physician fee schedule final rule, but no one can be sure of the conversion factor yet. Unless Congress takes action, each RVU will be worth 4.4 percent less next year than this year.Neurology: Many providers had worried that...

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