2006 proposed fee schedule - American Society of Clinical Oncology

medication pump from 2 codes (CPT 62367 and 62368) and EQ209
for the neurostimulator from 8 codes (CPT 95970-97979). We
are asking for comments from the specialty societies
performing these services to let us know if this proposal
reflects typical practice.
● Pricing of New Supply and Equipment Items
As part of last year’s rulemaking process, we reviewed
and updated the prices for equipment items in our PE
database and assigned a unique identifier to each equipment
item with the first two elements corresponding to one of
seven categories. It has come to our attention that we have
assigned the same category identifier (ELXXX) for both
“lanes/rooms” as well as “laboratory equipment”. To correct
this, we are assigning laboratory equipment items the new
category identifier “EPXXX”, but the specific numbers
associated with each item will remain the same. Supply
items were reviewed and updated in the rulemaking process
for the 2004 PFS. During subsequent meetings of both the
PEAC (now referred to as the PERC) and the RUC, supply and
equipment items were added that were not included in the
pricing updates. The following two tables (Table 16:
Proposed Practice Expense Supply Items and Table 17:
Proposed Practice Expense Equipment Items) list the
additional supply and equipment items for 2006 and the
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