tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 35

REIMBURSEMENT: Congress Considers Plan That Would Keep Payment Cuts For Some Doctors

Can a lame duck save physicians from the chopping block?Forget pay-for-performance. One new plan in Congress would give physicians a choice between deep cuts or intrusive utilization review.The House Energy and Commerce Committee is considering a few options for replacing the next few years' physician spending cuts, according to CongressDaily. But unlike past proposals, which would have offered all doctors at least a spending freeze, the Commerce plans could leave cuts in place for doctors who didn't play along with quality-improvement measures.Physicians could continue to receive cuts of between 2.5 percent and 5 percent for...

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