tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 10

RVUS: CMS Slashes More Than a Dozen Codes

CMS giveth, and CMS taketh away. At the start of 2003, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services boosted the practice expense relative value units (PE-RVUs) for certain Medicare services, including Pap smears. But in July, those gains will disappear due to what CMS is calling an error in the Physician Fee Schedule database that it must fix. Some other procedures that hadn't seen any increases at all are nevertheless coming under the ax for alleged errors. CMS slashed the non-facility PE-RVU values for a total of 14 CPT Codes in Program Memorandum AB-03-070. The most dramatic drop hit...

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