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was billed globally, the professional component was always
calculated at 100 percent of the professional component
(modifier-26) value.
The simulated total allowed charges for each family of
codes includes all global, technical, and professional
utilization for the family of codes (for example, the sum of
claims where the multiple procedure payment reduction would
have been in effect, in addition to claims that would not
have been subject to the multiple procedure payment
reduction). These simulated totals were then compared to
the actual allowed charges for each family of codes within
the same time period to calculate the impacts of the
proposed change.
Table 32 below shows the actual 2004 allowed charges by
family of imaging procedures and lists the percentage impact
by family if this proposed policy had been in effect.
Family 2 has the largest (-18.9 percent) impact, while
Family 11 has the smallest (-1.3 percent) impact.