Medicare RBRVS 2005: The Physician's Guide - Tapa blanda

The 2005 edition of Medicare RBRVS: The Physicians' Guide provides the insights and tools medical practices need to understand the RBRVS system and calculate payment schedules accurately. This consise, 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 2005 relative value units (RVUs) and payment policy indicators for each physician's service and geographic practice cost indexes (GPCIs) for each Medicare payment locality.