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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4157848"]Did I hear correctly that CMS's 2012 fee schedule for L Code increased by $10/contact - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!</p><p>This is pretty difficult to understand when these physicians are buying these lead wires from manufacturers for as much as $500 and then they are getting reimbursed roughly $420/electrode on each lead wire. Some of these lead wires have 8 electrodes on them - that's almost $3400 reimbursement with a net profit of $2900 after they pay for the lead wire. Then you have cowboys putting two of these lead wires in during a trial phase and now we're talking about net profit of roughly $5700 for work that takes about 45 minutes!</p><p>I'm in the wrong speciality!!</p><p>STOP THE MADENSS, CMS - PLEASE!! And we want to know what's wrong with health care!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4157848"]Did I hear correctly that CMS's 2012 fee schedule for L Code increased by $10/contact - ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! This is pretty difficult to understand when these physicians are buying these lead wires from manufacturers for as much as $500 and then they are getting reimbursed roughly $420/electrode on each lead wire. Some of these lead wires have 8 electrodes on them - that's almost $3400 reimbursement with a net profit of $2900 after they pay for the lead wire. Then you have cowboys putting two of these lead wires in during a trial phase and now we're talking about net profit of roughly $5700 for work that takes about 45 minutes! I'm in the wrong speciality!! STOP THE MADENSS, CMS - PLEASE!! And we want to know what's wrong with health care!![/QUOTE]
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