tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 5

RADIOLOGY: Alert--Medicare Will Cap Imaging Payments At Outpatient PPS Rates

Congress passes 'stealth cut' of physician reimbursementThe bad news just keeps coming for radiologists and others who provide imaging services.Not only do you lose 25 percent of your reimbursement for each additional imaging scan when your physician scans the same body area more than once--but next year that "multiple imaging discount" will rise to 50 percent. And now Congress has finally passed the 2006 budget, which included some little-noticed provisions that will make your life even harder.Imaging cut: Under current law, the money that Medicare saved with that "multiple imaging discount" would have gone back into physician...

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