BC Advantage - 2015 Issue 2

2015 RVUs: Epidural injections, ultrasound studies see big gains

You can expect to see payment boosts for a number of frequently billed epidural injection codes in 2015, according to our analysis of the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which contains the new relative value units (RVUs) being used for CPT codes. RVUs, and thus payments, are also going up for the technical component (TC) of several ultrasound exams.Some of the biggest increases are for epidural steroid injection codes 62310/62311 (without catheter) and 62318/62319 (with catheter), which see a total non-facility RVU increase of greater than 100%. This is actually the result of CMS deciding to reverse cuts...

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