Subject: Update to resource based relative value scale (RBRVS) and anesthesiology relative value guide (RVG), vendor rate increase and expedited prior authorization (EPA) changes.

     Effective Date: July 1, 2001.

     Document Description: Effective with dates of service on or after July 1, 2001, the Medical Assistance Administration (MAA) will implement:

•	The updated Medicare physician fee schedule data base (MPFSDB) year 2001 relative value units (RVUs);
•	The updated year 2001 relative value guide base anesthesia units (BAUs);
•	The updated Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule (MCLFS);
•	The year 2001 additions of current procedural terminology (CPT™) codes and health care financing administration common procedure coding system (HCPCS) level II codes;
•	A legislatively appropriated two and one-tenth percent (2.1%) vendor rate increase;
•	Updated conversion factors; and
•	Technical changes.

     To receive a copy of the interpretive or policy statement, contact Kevin Sullivan, Regulatory Improvement Coordinator, Department of Social and Health Services, Medical Assistance Administration, Division of Program Support, P.O. Box 45533, Olympia, WA 98504, phone (360) 725-1344 or go to website http://maa.dshs.wa.gov (click on Numbered Memorandum link), TDD 1-800-848-5429, fax (360) 586-9727, e-mail mailto:sullikm@dshs.wa.gov.

July 16, 2001

E. A. Myers, Acting Manager

Regulatory Improvement Project

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