tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 9

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Primary Care Doctors Face Total Breakdown Unless Payments Rise

Commission proposes reforms in RVU setting methodsCongress should give you a 2.8 percent pay increase next year, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended in its semiannual report.Don't start counting that money yet. MedPAC recommended a similar pay hike for 2006, and Congress gave you a pay freeze instead. But it can't hurt to have Congress' advisory body repeating its call for physicians to receive a fair pay raise.MedPAC also called on Congress to create a new panel of experts to review the recommendations from the Relative Value Unit Update Committee (RUC). MedPAC is concerned that the...

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