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The Current Procedural Terminology and the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale in neurosurgical practice

Richard A. Roski

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Changes in healthcare have made it increasingly more important for neurosurgeons to understand the economic pressures that effect their reimbursement. Two fundamental concepts that are of the greatest importance are the Current Procedural Terminology coding and the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale. The impact of these two entities on neurosurgical reimbursement in analyzed in this review.

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Changes in healthcare have made it increasingly more important for neurosurgeons to understand the economic pressures that effect their reimbursement. Two fundamental concepts that are of the greatest importance are the Current Procedural Terminology coding and the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale. The impact of these two entities on neurosurgical reimbursement in analyzed in this review.

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Changes in healthcare have made it increasingly more important for neurosurgeons to understand the economic pressures that effect their reimbursement. Two fundamental concepts that are of the greatest importance are the Current Procedural Terminology coding and the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale. The impact of these two entities on neurosurgical reimbursement in analyzed in this review.

Key concepts: Current Procedural Terminology, Resource-based relative value scale, Reimbursement, Terminology, Relative value, Resource (disambiguation), Scale (ratio), Resource use

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