Valuing neurosurgery services: part I. The historical

Neurosurg Focus · Apr 2002

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Valuing neurosurgery services: part I. The historical development and interrelationships of current procedural terminology and the medicare fee schedule.

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) standardizes medical procedure coding for billing and reimbursement. Since adoption of CPT coding as the basis for the Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS) in 1992, CPT coding policies and policy changes have been influenced not only by medical necessity and customary practice, but also increasingly by Medicare payment policies. The MFS created regulatory price control in the United States medical market based on widespread adoption of modified MFS by private payers and benchmark MFS fees governed by federal budget limitations and set annually by government agency (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

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- James R Bean.
- Neurosurgical Associates, Lexington, Kentucky 40504, USA. jbeanlex@aol.com
- Neurosurg Focus. 2002 Apr 15; 12 (4): e1.
AbstractCurrent Procedural Terminology (CPT) standardizes medical procedure coding for billing and reimbursement. Since adoption of CPT coding as the basis for the Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS) in 1992, CPT coding policies and policy changes have been influenced not only by medical necessity and customary practice, but also increasingly by Medicare payment policies. The MFS created regulatory price control in the United States medical market based on widespread adoption of modified MFS by private payers and benchmark MFS fees governed by federal budget limitations and set annually by government agency (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

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