tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 19

Dozens of Procedures Slashed in 2004 Physician Fee Schedule - 99311, 45385, 99348 Among Hardest Hit

If  your physician sees lots of patients in the nursing home or home care settings, you could be seeing steep decreases in your payments for 2004. CMS released a list of the high-volume services facing big changes as part of its draft regulation for the 2004 Physician Fee Schedule . The draft was published in the Aug. 15 Federal Register, and you have until Oct. 7 to comment. The biggest news in the rule is that CMS still expects to slash physician payments by 4.2 percent across the board next year. But some services face a much bigger...

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