tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 42
REIMBURSEMENT ~ Some Specialties Reap Massive Pay Increases, Others Suffer
Women could lose out from the new practice expense payments. Some services will see drastic reductions in their practice-expense relative value units (PE-RVUs) according to the final regulation from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).Many critics charged that CMS undervalued several essential services for women's health, including osteoporosis-detection techniques like bone density scanning. CMS based the costs for such techniques on pencil beam technology, which costs only around $41,000 instead of the $85,000 fan beam technology, which physicians more commonly use. CMS agreed to revise its estimates based on the cost of fan beam...
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