What are the Medicare relative values for auditory rehabilitation evaluation procedures?
Medicare uses the resource-based relative value scale to establish its annual physician fee schedule, which includes audiology and speech-language pathology procedures. Audiologists and SLPs can find Medicare fee schedules on the Billing and Reimbursement pages of the ASHA Web site. Each procedure includes three components—professional (physician work), technical (practice expense), and professional liability (malpractice)—and each component receives relative value units (RVUs). In 2008, CPT 92626—auditory rehabilitation evaluation—has zero professional work RVUs, 2.10 practice expense RVUs, and 0.06 malpractice RVUs for a total of 2.16 RVUs. The total is multiplied by the Medicare 2008 conversion factor of 38.0870 for a national fee of $82.27. Practitioners can check with their Medicare contractor for the local rates. The ASHA Medicare fee schedules include a link to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site that allows local rate determinations. The RVUs for 92627
