DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 12 (December)

1-year Medicare pay fix passes; funds reprocessing of claims

Your budget meetings may soon be free of doomsday projections showing what it'd be like to practice medicine with devastating Medicare cuts in 2011. Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate agreed to a 12-month Medicare payment fix bill, which is full of extra goodies to maintain current reimbursement rates at your practice. Example: It provides $200 million needed to reprocess claims paid earlier this year at updated fee schedule rates (PBN 9/27/10).

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