In 1966, The American Medical Association (AMA) working with multiple major medical
specialty societies developed an iterative coding system for describing medical procedures and …

The Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) plays a critical role in determining physician
payment. When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) transitioned to …

In our population. a focus of increased sig-nal intensity within the rotator cuff on short-TE
iniages was frequently. but not universally. found following tendon repair (Fig. 1). Similar to …

Medicare Part B payments to the economic performance of the United States. Although
sensible in concept, the political implementation of the SGR resulted in a failed and perilous …

Component coding is the method NeuroInterventionalists have used for the past 20 years to
bill procedural care. The term refers to separate billing for each discrete aspect of a surgical …

The year 1965 was critical for US health care policy. In that year, Medicare was created as
part of the Social Security Act under President Lyndon B. Johnson after several earlier …

Carotid and cerebral angiography have been a mainstay of neurointerventional and
neuroradiologic practice for years. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Relative …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess potential physician work efficiencies when
more than one diagnostic imaging study is interpreted by the same provider during the same …

We describe a crucial but little-known constituent of the Medicare payment system. Assuming
that you are not asking about the Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC is an acronym for the …

The MR findings of a clinically severe case of serologically documented Epstein-Barr virus
encephalomyelitis are presented, demonstrating hyperintensity on T2-weighted sequences …