February 1, 2022 | By Sean Weiss, CHC, CEMA, CMCO, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC As 2022 kicks into full gear one of the biggest areas providers (*rendering services in hospitals) face a change is tied to the 2022 CMS Split/Shared Visit Rules and what the anticipated impact(s) will be (here is a link…
January 7, 2021 | By Grant Huang, CPC, CPMA The 2021 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) had included the largest one-year reduction to the Medicare conversion factor (CF) in more than 20 years, but it won’t actually take effect because the CF is being increased as a result of provisions in the recently passed stimulus legislation.…
October 30, 2020 | By Edward Townley, Founder, Cogent9 Consulting We use relative value units (RVUs) in many aspects of our practices. Some physician compensation arrangements are based on RVUs; other practices use them for staffing models and productivity measurements. Where did RVUs come from and how have they evolved over time? Beginning in…
May 8, 2020 | By Paul Spencer, CPC, COC Time, as it applies to procedures and services, is a vastly misunderstood portion of the Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS), the methodology used to generate the relative value units (RVUs) that determine the payment for every CPT code. For many years, information on the…