tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 18

IMAGING: Imaging Reimbursement Could Be In For A Third Hit Soon

Neighboring physicians see 10 percent difference.Physicians' practice expenses for MRIs and CT scans may come under the knife soon, if the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has its way.Imaging scans are already slated for tough cuts next year, including a 50-percent reduction in contiguous scans and cuts to the technical component of many scans. But physicians could also see a drop in the work relative value units of these codes, if MedPAC advises Congress to make a change.Medicare may be overpaying for imaging scans because it assumes providers use imaging equipment only 50 percent of the time...

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