Receipt r106
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"inputs": {
"code": "0689T"
},
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"basis": "measured",
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{
"basis": "measured",
"name": "physician_fee_schedule",
"source": "Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Relative Value File, read 2026-08-21, archive sha256 91b9bdd5459bc4c19d4f8203410b29a672db37def2e70f01ef627b8b18fc7482"
}
],
"rule": "A figure computed from inputs of more than one basis carries the weakest basis among them, strongest to weakest being measured, then cited, then assumption, so a figure is never stronger than the weakest input that produced it."
},
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"is": "the whole service, the interpretation and the equipment together, billed as the code with no modifier",
"modifier": "",
"no_relative_value_stated": "CMS states no national relative value on this row. That is not a relative value of zero and it is not a price of zero: it is the absence of a national figure, and the two are different facts about different things. No number is served here, so there is none to quote.",
"part": "global",
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"definition": "Contractors price the code. A/B MACs (B) will establish RVUs and payment amounts for these services, generally on an individual case basis following review of documentation such as an operative report.",
"definition_source": "RVU26AR.pdf, inside the archive named in this answer's provenance, which is CMS's own documentation for the Relative Value File and is the citation for this definition.",
"letter": "C"
}
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"is": "the interpretation, the physician's reading of the study, billed with modifier 26",
"modifier": "26",
"no_relative_value_stated": "CMS states no national relative value on this row. That is not a relative value of zero and it is not a price of zero: it is the absence of a national figure, and the two are different facts about different things. No number is served here, so there is none to quote.",
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"definition": "Contractors price the code. A/B MACs (B) will establish RVUs and payment amounts for these services, generally on an individual case basis following review of documentation such as an operative report.",
"definition_source": "RVU26AR.pdf, inside the archive named in this answer's provenance, which is CMS's own documentation for the Relative Value File and is the citation for this definition.",
"letter": "C"
}
},
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"is": "the equipment, the supplies and the staff who run the study, billed with modifier TC",
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"no_relative_value_stated": "CMS states no national relative value on this row. That is not a relative value of zero and it is not a price of zero: it is the absence of a national figure, and the two are different facts about different things. No number is served here, so there is none to quote.",
"part": "technical",
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"definition": "Contractors price the code. A/B MACs (B) will establish RVUs and payment amounts for these services, generally on an individual case basis following review of documentation such as an operative report.",
"definition_source": "RVU26AR.pdf, inside the archive named in this answer's provenance, which is CMS's own documentation for the Relative Value File and is the citation for this definition.",
"letter": "C"
}
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"not_a_specialty_rule": "The fee schedule does not carry which specialty may furnish the professional component. A split says the interpretation is separately billable, never who may bill it; interpretation_requirement and a payer's own policy are what settle that.",
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"definition": "Diagnostic Tests for Radiology Services. Identifies codes that describe diagnostic tests.",
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"value": "1"
},
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},
"field_definitions": "RVU26AR.pdf inside the same archive is CMS's own documentation and is the citation for the status code and PC/TC indicator definitions",
"programme": "Medicare. A commercial payer's own fee schedule is a different document and this world has not read one.",
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},
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},
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