INDUSTRY NOTES: Medicare Turns Your Imaging Services Reimbursement Upside-Down
Plus: New law could leave millions of eligible Medicaid enrollees without health care, consumer groups claim.A series of drastic reforms to payment for imaging services under the Medicare physician fee schedule are all underway--and recent testimony before House lawmakers has sealed the deal for providers. The changes have come about after lawmakers noticed that spending on imaging services had skyrocketed in recent years. "Between 2000 and 2005, spending for imaging services paid under the physician fee schedule more than doubled from $6.6 billion to $13.7 billion, an average annual growth rate of 15.7 percent,"...
To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.
Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.
Current newsletters added each month
Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products: