Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee

And then the step after that is code valuation.

So that's where the AMA's Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC, comes in.

So we have several staff that work on those.

We have staff dedicated to Medicare coverage issues.

The CAP comments also raised concerns about other proposed changes, including how CMS handles software as a medical service.

The CAP is strongly urging CMS to wait for the American Medical Association's recommendations on code changes and reimbursement amounts, which are overseen by its Relative Value Scale Update Committee, the so-called RUC process.

The CAP will work with the AMA to ensure that pathologists' voices are heard.

Here's Dr. Joe Saad, chair of the CAP's Council on Government and Professional Affairs, speaking at a CAP webinar on the proposed changes last month.

and CPT panel is ultimately the adjudicator on whether that conversion happens.

Once a code is approved for category one, then it would go to the RUC, or the RVU Update Committee, which is a committee of the AMA that will make a recommendation to Medicare on what RVUs should be assigned to that code.

And to your point

earlier, we've really only seen a handful of AI algorithms that have been assigned a category one CPT code and a payment in the physician fee schedule.