This proposed notice sets forth proposed revisions to work relative value units (RVUs) and corresponding changes to the practice expense and malpractice RVUs affecting payment for physicians' services. The statute requires that we review RVUs no less often than every 5 years. This is our Fourth Five Year Review of Work RVUs since we implemented the physician fee schedule (PFS) on January 1, 1992. These revisions to work RVUs are proposed to be effective for services furnished beginning January 1, 2012. These revisions reflect changes in medical practice and coding that affect the relative amount of physician work required to perform each service as required by the statute. The Fourth Five Year Review of Work includes services that were submitted through public comment and by the Medicare contractor medical directors (CMDs), as well as a number of potentially misvalued codes identified by CMS (that is, Harvard valued codes and codes with Site-of-Service anomalies).
Medicare Program; Five Year Review of Work Relative Value Units Under the Physician Fee Schedule
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