tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 11

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Medicare Needs More Up-To-Date Data On Your Practice Expenses

CMS should consider scrapping '50 percent' rule, commissioners sayThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could make the tangled process of figuring out your practice expenses a lot easier, according to commissioners with the Medicare Payments Advisory Commission. CMS could set a schedule to review the wages of your clinical staff and the costs of your supplies on a regular basis. The agency also could review the costs of more expensive and newer items more often than other items, commissioners said. And finally, CMS could scrap the assumption that you use each piece of equipment at 50 percent of...

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