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11555718

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-13
pubmed:abstractText
Reimbursement for gynecologic oncologists can be categorized into three areas: payments for evaluation and management of clinical diagnosis, payments for chemotherapy, and reimbursement for surgical procedures. Revenue from surgical care is generally considered the major source of income for gynecologic oncologists. The transition to Medicare's resource-based relative value scale-based physician payment system began on January 1, 1992, culminating nearly a decade of effort by the medical profession and the government to change the way Medicare pays for physician services. The resource-based relative value scale payment schedule was fully phased in on January 1, 1996, and has been adopted by other third party payers. As a result of this reform, relative value units were created for current procedural technology codes and represent a composite of work, practice, and malpractice expenditures. When multiplied by a dollar conversion factor, relative value units can be used to calculate the reimbursement amount for all procedures covered by Medicare and other private insurers. Many of the discrepancies in reimbursement for similar procedures performed by gynecologists and urologists were partially corrected in 1997; however, sex-specific bias still exists in payment for surgical procedures performed on men and women.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1040-8746
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
390-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Reimbursement for surgical procedures in gynecologic oncology.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, California 92868-3298, USA. bjmonk@uci.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review