tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 9

REIMBURSEMENT: Rollbacks In Doctor Pay No Barrier To Patients

One more reason why access concerns won't sway CMSWhile payments under the physician fee schedule have sunk lower and lower since the 1990s, the Government Accountability Office says access has more than stabilized - it's improved. Spurred by physicians' predictions that a 5.4 percent pay reduction in 2002 would spell trouble for patients, the GAO looked at trends in physician claims data. Surprise: The percentage of beneficiaries who received services increased from April 2000 to April 2002 in both urban and rural areas, according to a Feb. 9 report, "Medicare Beneficiary Access" (GAO-05-145R).The average number of office...

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