DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2009 Issue 12 (December)

NPP Report: Teaching anesthesiology will be more profitable in 2010

Starting Jan. 1, your teaching anesthesiologists will get 100% of the Medicare fee schedule payment instead of 50% when working with two residents on overlapping anesthesia cases. The change, long-sought by anesthesiologists, also helps out certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) by upping their payments in teaching scenarios as well, according to the final 2010 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS).

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