tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 7

PHYSICIAN NOTES: CMS Spending on Physician and Clinical Services to Grow 6 Percent in 2009

Plus: Payers may not honor new outpatient therapy cap amount until April,CMS says. If CMS has its way, the salad days could be over soon. This year, CMS will shell out six percent more for Medicare physician and clinical services -- but that amount will drop next year, if the SGR formula goes into effect. According to a Feb. 24 CMS press release, growth in national health expenditures will decelerate in 2010 to 4.6 percent, thanks to the projected 21 percent cut to Medicare physician payment rates required under the sustainable growth rate (SGR) "called for in...

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