tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 37

REGUALATION: Dermatologists Could Win Big, Radiologists Could Lose Out

Are you ready for a topsy-turvy new world of expenses? You soon may have a whole new set of RVU valuations to get used to. CMS wants to use survey data from specialty societies to set practice expense RVUs, starting next year and phasing in the procedure over four years.Warning: Some codes will see increases and decreases that have nothing to do with their real costs. For example, CMS predicts that PE-RVUs for 11040 (Debride skin, partial) will increase nearly 20 percent by 2009, but 11043 (Debride tissue/muscle) will fall 7 percent. Similarly, PE-RVUs for CT of the...

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