tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 14

REIMBURSEMENT: Medicare Increases RVUs For 58356 By Tenfold

But venipuncture is no longer payable under physician fee schedule You'll see a huge pay increase for CPT Code 58356 (Endometrial cryoablation), which just saw its non-facility practice expense RVUs rise from 6.84 to 61.43. The facility-based PE-RVUs only changed slightly, from 2.65 to 2.69. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services corrected payment information about this code, along with dozens of other physician codes, in a notice in the April 1 Federal Register. But this was no "April Fools" joke - these changes are retroactive to the start of the year. The American College...

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