Nominations open Jan. 15, 2026

The American Dental Association is seeking a representative to serve on an American Medical Association advisory committee that provides input on the value of medical procedures to help inform Medicare payment calculations.

The Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale describes the resources required to provide a medical service. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services applies it to CPT codes used to document and report medical procedures to calculate Medicare payments.

The Relative Value Scale Update Committee makes relative value recommendations to CMS for new, revised and potentially misvalued CPT codes. While the ADA does not sit on the Relative Value Scale Update Committee, it does sit on the committee that advises it.

The RUC Advisory Committee assists in the development of relative value units and presents its specialties’ recommendations to the Relative Value Scale Update Committee. The advisory committee consists of representatives from specialty societies seated in the American Medical Association House of Delegates as well as other invited specialty societies, including the ADA. The ADA appoints a primary and alternate adviser to the committee.

Nominations for the primary adviser position will be open from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, 2026. Nominations should include a curriculum vitae that is no more than three pages and a formal letter to the ADA outlining familiarity, experience and interest related to the RUC Advisory Committee and CPT process. Nominations should be sent to dentalcode@ada.org for review by the ADA Council on Dental Benefit Programs.

The primary adviser will be required to attend three in-person Relative Value Scale Update Committee meetings per year and assist in developing surveys, when needed, to determine the amount of work and practice expense health care providers put into delivering procedures associated with certain oral health-related CPT codes. The term will be for three years beginning in late April 2026.

To learn more about these processes, visit the American Medical Association website at ama-assn.org.