tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 11

Payment Revisions: Eye Surgeons Win Boost as CMS Reviews RVUs

Good news for physicians billing for voice prosthetics and eye surgery codes. The quarterly housekeeping for physician coding yielded a few winners and losers. In the May 30 Federal Register (Vol. 68, No. 104, pp. 32400-32405), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services boosted reimbursement for a handful of codes and ended coverage for a number of others. The good news CPT 92597 (evaluate and fit voice prosthetic) will now be covered by Medicare as of last March 1. CMS admits it wrongly gave this code a status indicator of I (non-covered) and an RVU of 2.84. In...

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