Reimbursement: Physicians Need to Brace ThemselvesFor These Work-RVU Hits
Skin debridement, hip arthroplasty may be money losers next year
Get ready: Work relative value units (RVUs) could drop more than 10 percent for some codes. Of the 709 codes which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) referred to the Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) for review, most either increased or stayed the same. Because of the 10-percent across-the-board cut in work RVUs, which CMS plans for 2007, any code that didn't increase its work RVUs effectively takes a pay cut. Skin debridement codes 11040-11042 will see their work RVUs drop around 25 percent, though...
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