This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Don J Selzer during the Why Should I Care? Advocacy, Health Policy & Reimbursement on April 14 2018
Keyword(s): ACS, adoption, advocacy, AMA, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, audit, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, CPT codes, dissemination, emerging technology, endoscopy, guidelines, health policy, hernia repair, inpatient, insurer, internist, lap chole, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, malpractice, neurologist, outpatient, payment, physician, practice, radiologist, RBRVS, recovery room, reimbursement, relative value unit, resource-based relative value scale, right colectomy, RVU
Different code sets–2:03
CPT codes–2:53
Resource-based relative value scale-9:07
Value determination–14:18
CMS Action–15:58