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Societies want RUC to revalue home, psychiatry services
Specialty societies have submitted dozens of codes - including some high utilization psychiatric codes - for what experts believe will be a relatively lean AMA RVS Update Committee (RUC) five-year review in 2012. The five-year review is a process where specialty societies and CMS submit codes to the RUC that they believe have incorrectly valued relative value units (RVUs).
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