tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 29

PHARMACEUTICALS: Providers Frustrated By CMS CAP Get Relief

Now, doctors get a weeklong window to provide drugs.While it is far from a complete cave-in on its part, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services bowed to a couple providers' concerns about the Competitive Acquisition Program for Part B drugs.For one thing, CMS issued an interim final rule instead of a plain final rule. That means providers have another two months to comment on the rule, which came out in the July 6 Federal Register. Also, the new rule states that physicians can name a seven-day period during which they plan to administer drugs. Allowing physicians...

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