Elle a eu le merite de conduire la destinee du
RUC pendant bon nombre d'annees.
For much of its history,
RUC's confidential decision making process has made analysis of the process challenging.
The
RUC officers called out to the the murders quickly wrote them off as the result of a joint suicide pact by two lovers.
The GAO report recommends that the CMS better document its process for establishing relative values and develop a process to inform the public of potentially misvalued services identified by the
RUC. The CMS also should develop a plan for using funds appropriated for the collection and use of information on physicians' services in the determination of relative values, the report stated.
The GAO report recommends that CMS better document its process for establishing relative values and develop a process to inform the public of potentially mis-valued services identified by the
RUC. CMS also should develop a plan for using funds appropriated for the collection and use of information on physicians' services in the determination of relative values, the report stated.
Formally known as the Relative Value Scale Update Committee, the
RUC will begin posting votes totals for each CPT code it considers and publishing its meeting minutes, starting in November.
The purpose of each of these triannual
RUC meetings is always the same: it's the committee members' job to decide what Medicare should pay them and their colleagues for the medical procedures they perform.
The
RUC is an AMA-convened committee made up of representatives from medical societies and other organizations (see sidebar).
RVS and
RUC are two such anachronisms; both have been flawed from their inception.
Armed to the teeth, the peelers jumped out and took up the usual positions for the
RUC traveling through one of the most Republican areas in Belfast.
For Mary Cheney, the decision to sever ties with the
RUC is less shocking.