Procedures that require physician assistants in fewer than five percent of occurrences are non-reimbursable.
AAPA used data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ National Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value File to compile their list. CMS posted the first 2011 list in January and has since revised the document twice, most recently for the April 2011 release.
Read the AAPA report (pdf).
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