01/15/18
Payment Changes in CPT Codes Billed by Therapists
For those of you that provide outpatient therapy services to Medicare beneficiaries, many of you will see a decrease in your payments in 2018 compared to 2017 due to a reduction in payment of the most commonly billed CPT codes to the Medicare program. However, several CPT codes that perhaps you should have been billing all these years will see an increase in their payment rate in 2018 compared to 2017. This change in payment is due to changes in the work relative value unit (RVU) and practice expense (PE) RVU of the CPT codes. The work RVU takes into
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