tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 2

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Physician Cuts Go Ahead As Planned, CMS Reports

Voluntary reporting program will be less complicated, notes ACPSince Congress failed to pass a final budget for 2006 before it recessed for the year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had no choice but to go ahead with the 4.4 percent cut to your reimbursement, CMS says in a press release.Also, because the budget didn't pass, the base composite rate paid to end-stage renal disease facilities won't increase from 2005. The budget would have raised that rate 1.6 percent. CMS' moratorium on new specialty hospitals, due to expire on Feb. 16, would have been extended...

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