Patrick E. Gallagher | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

The Medicare RBRVS system touches virtually every medical practice in the United States. The 2003 edition of Medicare RBRVS: The Physicians' Guide provides the insights and tools your medical practice needs to understanding the RBRVS system and calculate payment schedules accurately. This concise, 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 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 recently released 2003 relative value units (RVUs) and payment policy indicators for each physician's service and geographic practice cost indexes (GPCIs) for each Medicare payment locality.