At the January 2024 RUC meeting, the specialty society indicated that CPT code 5XX05's survey 25th percentile work RVU of 3.91 was too high for this procedure compared to other services in the physician fee schedule with similar intra-service time
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Non-patient facing MIPS eligible clinicians, small practices, and practices located in rural areas and geographic HPSAs receive 20 points for each medium-weighted improvement activity and 40 points for each high-weighted improvement activity
(Cigarillos, blunts, and little cigars, for instance.) Cigarettes may be the most notable example of this deviation, although they do, in a sense, represent a category of their own
We also acknowledged that some prescribers prescribing for beneficiaries in LTC facilities have adopted EPCS, but that others have waited for the standard to be updated (88 FR 79286 through 79287)