tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 33

Orthopedics: Practices Could Lose $1000 Per Week Under New Rule

 CMS wants to stop paying separately for casting supplies If your office provides a lot of casts or splints, you could be casting away money next year.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to stop paying separately for casting and splint supplies ( Q4001 -Q4051) in 2006, according to the physician fee schedule proposed rule. Instead, CMS will make the supplies part of the practice expense RVUs for a laundry list of surgical codes. Provider perspective: The change will have minimal impact if CMS increases the RVUs for the surgical codes to accommodate the cost of...

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