PHYSICIANS: PPAC To CMS--Stop The 10-Percent RVU Cut
Conversion factor still faces 5.1-percent cut.There's still time to stop a steep 10-percent cut to your work RVUs, and physicians are pressuring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help them avoid it. The proposal: CMS has proposed to cut all work relative value units (RVUs) by 10 percent across the board to pay for a $4 billion increase in work RVUs for some evaluation & management codes. In combination with changes to the practice expense RVUs, this change could slash payments for some codes dramatically, say physicians.The alternative: Instead of cutting work...
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