tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 7

Reimbursement: PHYSICIANS SCORE BIG IN OMNIBUS BILL

Physicians will get a 1.6-percent pay increase from Medicare, rather than a 4.4-percent decrease, under an omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week. The omnibus, totaling almost $400 billion, wraps together the 11 appropriations measures Congress had not managed to pass for fiscal year 2003, which began Oct. 1. Civilian agencies have been operating under a series of stopgap spending measures, generally at FY 2002 funding levels. Instead of adopting the Senate approach of freezing 2003 physician reimbursement at 2002 rates, as many had expected, Congress went for a long-term fix scored by the Congressional Budget...

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