ACR Seeks Advisors for AMA/Specialty Society RUC and CPT Committee

To indicate your interest, send an email to [email protected] with a brief statement of interest, current contact/bio information and current CV no later than Sept. 30.

We expect to interview final candidates at the ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in November and will select final candidates shortly thereafter. For questions or additional information on these appointments, contact Antanya Chung at 404-633-3777 or mailto:[email protected].

For more details on the AMA process, read “How to Decipher the American Medical Association’s Billing, Coding Processes,” from the April issue of The Rheumatologist, which can be found at http://www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/decipher-american-medical-associations-billing-coding-processes.

The American Medical Association consists of two key groups: 1) the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), which oversees the annual updates to the physician work relative values, and 2) the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Editorial Panel, which assigns new or revised codes in the CPT book. The CPT Process Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) was…

The American Medical Association (AMA) Relative Value Update Committee (RUC) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) meet three times a year to keep the CPT code set up to date and review resource costs for physicians. The two-step meetings of the CPT Editorial Panel and the RUC allow physicians to provide direct input to the Centers…

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