tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 25

CARDIOLOGY: You May Have To Close Your In-Office Cath Labs Or Scanning Centers

RVU changes could mean $200,000 pay cut per cardiologistCardiologists face just a 4-percent decrease in their reimbursement by 2010 due to changes to work and practice expense relative value units (RVUs), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services claims.  But some cardiology practices could be much harder hit than that, claims Dori Rodriguez, business office manager with the Nebraska Heart Institute in Lincoln, NE. Her practice has an office catheterization lab, and she says its reimbursements will drop around 60 percent by 2010, when all the changes take effect.When CMS first proposed the PE-RVU changes in...

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