Medicare RBRVS: The Physician's Guide

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2010 Edition
Paperback: 560+ pages
8.5" x 11"
ISBN 1603591400
978-1603591409
AMA Press
March 2010
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2011 Edition
Paperback: 560+ pages
8.5" x 11"
ISBN 160359213X
978-1603592130
AMA Press
March 2011
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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:

Up-to-date information - covers new payment rules that take effect in and gives an explanation of how they may affect your practice
How to correct payment schedule calculations - with updated payment policies, payment calculations and information on appropriate use of modifiers
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.

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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.

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