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● All other expenses, which include expenses for legal
services, accounting, office management, professional
association memberships, and any professional expenses not
previously mentioned in this section.
In accordance with section 212 of the BBRA, we
established a process to supplement the SMS data for a
specialty with data collected by entities and organizations
other than the AMA (that is, those entities and
organizations representing the specialty itself). (See the
Criteria for Submitting Supplemental Practice Expense Survey
Data interim final rule with comment period (65 FR 25664).)
Originally, the deadline to submit supplementary survey data
was through August 1, 2001. In the CY 2002 PFS final rule
(66 FR 55246), the deadline was extended through
August 1, 2003. To ensure maximum opportunity for
specialties to submit supplementary survey data, we extended
the deadline to submit surveys until March 1, 2005 in the
Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee
Schedule for CY 2004 final rule with comment period
(68 FR 63196) (hereinafter referred to as CY 2004 PFS final
rule with comment period).
The direct cost data for individual services were
originally developed by the Clinical Practice Expert Panels
(CPEP). The CPEP data include the supplies, equipment, and
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