tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 21

REIMBURSEMENT: Cardiologists, ER Docs Would Suffer Most From 9.9 Percent Cut

Good news for anesthesiologists, bad news for everyone elseBad news: Your Medicare payments still face a cut of 9.9 percent next year, unless Congress acts. That's the worst news in the 2008 physician fee schedule proposed rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).The biggest losers would be cardiologists, emergency physicians, hand surgeons, interventional radiologists, nephrologists, neurosurgeons, rheumatologists, thoracic surgeons and vascular surgeons. The biggest winners from the new rule would be audiologists, optometrists, nuclear medicine physicians, geriatricians and dermatologists.  The good news: CMS decided to accept a number of recommendations from the...

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