I'm not familiar with the medicare terminology.  Am I right to assume when RVU for a carotid is 0.60 that means 60% of an hour or 40 minutes?  Also,  I use 93990 for scanning Dialysis grafts or fistulas.  Is this what everyone uses?  The title for this on the spreadsheet I downloaded is "Doppler Flow Testing".  Why is this not a duplex and why is the RVT so small?  These take at least an hour because very few do not have complications.  

Nancy Hohn, RVT, RDCS
Nebraska Heart Institute
Vascular Lab 402-483-8551
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Diana Ross, RT, RDMS [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Saturday, February 24, 2001 6:08 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Tech Volumes

--- "McAninch, Bridget" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I believe that I have seen this published somewhere,
> maybe SVT or SDMS.  I
> maybe having dejavu, who knows?  I was hoping by
> placing the comment  on the
> Flow Net, someone would offer a suggestion.  The
> RVU's would vary slightly
> from one hospital to another due to facility
> specific policies and also
> would vary from one tech to another, however it
> would be an excellent
> baseline.


I found it!  Download it straight from here:

http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/rvu01.exe



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Diana Ross, RT, RDMS

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