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TABLE 33--Impact of Practice Expense, Malpractice RVUs,
Multiple Imaging Discount, and Physician Fee Schedule Update
on Total Medicare Allowed Charges by Physician,
Practitioner, and Supplier Subcategory
Specialty
Medicare
Allowed
Charges for
2004 ($in
millions)
Impact of
PE RVU
Changes
Impact of
Malpractice
RVU
changes
Impact of
Multiple
Imaging
Discount
Impact of
All
Proposed
Changes
Combined
Impact:
Includes
Update
and Drug
Admin.
Trans.
Physicians:
Allergy/Immunology $165 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.8% -3.5%
Anesthesiology $1,486 -0.7% -0.1% 0.2% -0.6% -4.9%
Cardiac Surgery $385 -1.0% 0.2% 0.2% -0.5% -4.8%
Cardiology $7,219 -0.5% 0.1% 0.2% -0.2% -4.5%
Colon and Rectal
Surgery
$118 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0% -3.3%
Critical Care $147 -0.3% 0.0% 0.2% -0.1% -4.4%
Dermatology $2,033 4.1% -0.1% 0.2% 4.2% -0.1%
Emergency Medicine $1,841 -0.4% 0.0% 0.2% -0.2% -4.5%
Endocrinology $301 -0.5% 0.0% 0.2% -0.3% -4.6%
Family Practice $4,683 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% -4.1%
Gastroenterology $1,710 1.4% 0.0% 0.1% 1.5% -2.8%
General Practice $1,023 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% -4.1%
General Surgery $2,319 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4% -3.9%
Geriatrics $123 -0.2% 0.0% 0.2% -0.1% -4.4%
Hand Surgery $68 -0.5% 0.1% 0.2% -0.2% -4.5%
Hematology/Oncology $985 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.5% -5.2%
Infectious Disease $410 -0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% -4.3%
Internal Medicine $9,257 -0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% -4.2%
Interventional
Radiology
$209 0.2% -0.1% -0.9% -0.8% -5.1%
Nephrology $1,507 -0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% -4.3%
Neurology $1,284 -0.6% 0.0% 0.0% -0.6% -4.9%
Neurosurgery $538 -0.7% 0.2% 0.1% -0.3% -4.6%
Nuclear Medicine $87 -0.3% -0.1% -0.2% -0.5% -4.8%
Obstetrics/
Gynecology
$599 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% -4.2%
Ophthalmology $4,739 -1.1% 0.0% 0.2% -1.0% -5.3%
Orthopedic Surgery $3,145 -0.4% 0.1% 0.2% -0.1% -4.4%
Otolaryngology $871 -0.6% 0.0% 0.2% -0.4% -4.7%
Pathology $915 1.3% 0.0% 0.2% 1.5% -2.8%
Pediatrics $66 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3% -4.1%
Physical Medicine $750 -0.5% -0.1% 0.2% -0.4% -4.7%
Plastic Surgery $279 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3% -4.0%
Psychiatry $1,127 0.0% -0.1% 0.2% 0.1% -4.2%
Pulmonary Disease $1,521 -0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% -4.3%
Radiation Oncology $1,308 1.9% 0.0% 0.1% 2.0% -2.3%