tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 43

Physician Notes: Cystoscopy, Lesion Removal Codes See Drastic Increases

 Will you be able to keep these new non-facility rates?The 2005 Physician Fee Schedule includes surprising gains for some big-ticket procedures.Thanks to new practice expense data, payments will rise dramatically for some procedures performed by cardiologists, radiologists, radiation on-cologists and neurologists. The Practice Expense Advisory Commission received new data on office-based supply and equipment costs for some procedures that docs previously only performed in the hospital but now occasionally perform in their offices.That means some codes will se huge increases in their non-facility amounts while facility-based amounts will change only slightly, says consultant Marvin Berkowitz...

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