2006 proposed fee schedule - American Society of Clinical Oncology

of the updated GPCI data. For the Rest of California
payment locality that included Santa Cruz and Sonoma
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counties, the 2005 GAF is 1.012, and the 2006 GAF published
at that time was 1.017. After removing Santa Cruz County
from the Rest of California locality, its proposed 2006 GAF
increases to 1.119. Removing Sonoma County from the Rest of
California locality results in a proposed 2006 GAF of 1.098
for the new Sonoma County payment locality. The Rest of
California proposed 2006 GAF is 1.011. Table 36 below shows
the impacts of the proposed changes in the GPCIs and GAFs.
Although only Santa Cruz and Sonoma Counties and the Rest of
California locality are specifically impacted by the
proposed change, in Table 36, we are showing the GPCIs and
GAFs for all California payment localities (the changes from
the 2005 to 2006 GAFs for these counties represent the
second year of the transition to updated GPCIs).