APMA representatives participated in the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) meeting April 23–26 in Chicago. APMA is the only organization representing podiatry in the AMA RUC process. The RUC is a volunteer group of physicians and other health-care professionals who advise Medicare on how to value physicians’ work.
At these meetings, APMA attendees may caucus with related specialty groups, provide input on relevant codes, and make presentations on appropriate code practice expense components and work relative value units. Your APMA representatives participate to protect podiatrists’ interests and also to protect the appropriate code values. APMA members can view a recorded webinar on the RUC process from APMA President Brooke Bisbee, DPM, a former APMA RUC Advisor.