71 Doctor Groups Urge CMS To Delay Pay Code Changes By One Year

By John Wilkerson / August 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM
CMS should push back by one year its proposed schedule for changing Medicare pay codes for physician services, 71 medical societies tell CMS, and they have a proposal to align the schedules of AMA's CPT Editorial Panel and its Specialty Society Relative Vale Scale Update Committee (RUC). The letter was spearheaded by the American Medical Association, but it includes physician groups such as the American Academy of Family Physicians that have opposed the RUC for favoring specialists over primary care...


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