tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 25

WORKING RVUS: Prepare For 2007 Cuts With This Work RVU Hit List

Skin debridement, hip arthroplasty may be money losers next yearGet set for steep cuts next year: Work RVUs could drop more than 10 percent for some codes.Of the 709 codes which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 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 specialty societies...

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