Medicare RBRVS: The Physician's Guide

Please note: You may wish to make your selection according to its publication date. Any book not yet published can be pre-ordered here. If you are interested in RBRVS data files instead, go here.

2008 Edition
Paperback: 560+ pages
8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1579479715
978-1579479718
AMA Press
March 2008
(click below for the very best available price for the 2008 Edition)

2009 Edition
Paperback: 560+ pages
8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1603590870
978-1-60359-087-7
AMA Press
Not available until March 2009
(click below for the very best available price for the 2009 Edition)

Understand the RBRVS system and how to calculate payment schedules accurately.

Recommended by the AMA, this concise, authoritative guide, written especially for physicians and their staffs, provides:

How the system operates including a history of payment reform, updated payment policies, payment calculations, appropriate use of modifiers, and more.
A detailed overview of the current payment system and the environment and legislation that created it and any changes.
A detailed description of the resource-based value scale (RBRVS), geographic adjustments, conversion factors, and limits on physician charges.
Easy-to-use tables with all the elements necessary to calculate the Medicare payment schedule, including the new relative value units (RVUs) and payment policy indicators for each physician's service and geographic practice cost indexes (GPCIs) for each Medicare payment locality.

You may also be interested in:

RBRVS Data Manager, from the AMA
CodeManager software and coding data files, also from the AMA

Please remember that the government no longer allows a grace period for annual code sets. The new HIPAA Transaction and Code Set Rule requires providers to use national medical code sets that are valid at the time that a service is provided. ICD-9-CM code revisions become effective October 1st each year while CPT and HCPCS code revisions become effective January 1st. In order for you to meet this requirement, you must have the revised CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM codes in your possession before the implementation dates. The best way to do this is to order your code books early. Review current coding resources.

(information provided by the publisher)

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