tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 27

Fee Schedule: 2009 Fee Schedule Proposes 5.4 Percent Cut To Medicare Pay

CMS wants comments on the proposal by Aug. 29 While lawmakers attempt to heal the problems with the 2008 fee schedule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services churns forward with proposed cuts that could hurt health providers in 2009. Under the proposed 2009 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (published in the July 7 Federal Register), physicians' pay would drop by 5.4 percent in January. If, however, President Bush signs H.R. 6331 into law, the 5.4 cut proposed for 2009 would be replaced by a 1.1 increase in pay. Physician practices that don't want to gamble...

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