tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 44

PHYSICIANS: Feds Set To Slash Payments In 2006

CMS final rule also extends glaucoma screening benefit.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has socked physicians with a feared pay cut for 2006, according to the newest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule.CMS will reduce physicians' payment rates per service by 4.4 percent in 2006, the agency announced Nov. 2. "The current system is not sustainable, and the payment reduction offers further proof that we must move to a payment system that ensures adequate payments to physicians, but also supports high quality and efficient health care services," argues CMS administrator Mark McClellan.In the...

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