tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 44

E/M SERVICES: You May See More Reimbursement For The E/M Coding You're Already Doing

MedPAC considers a 2.7 percent increase in your payments for 2006 and 2007 Think you’re getting less payment for the same E/M services ? You’re right. Evaluation and management services claimed a smaller percentage of physician spending in 2004 as compared to 2002, the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission (MedPAC) found at its December meeting. In other words, even if E/M services still have the same RVUs as before, they receive less money because other services’ RVUs have gone up and those other services take up a bigger slice of the pie. The reason: You’re getting more...

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