tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 28

INDUSTRY NOTES: Medicare Turns Your Imaging Services Reimbursement Upside-Down

Plus:  New law could leave millions of eligible Medicaid enrollees without health care, consumer groups claim.A series of drastic reforms to payment for imaging services under the Medicare physician fee schedule are all underway--and recent testimony before House lawmakers has sealed the deal for providers. The changes have come about after lawmakers noticed that spending on imaging services had skyrocketed in recent years. "Between 2000 and 2005, spending for imaging services paid under the physician fee schedule more than doubled from $6.6 billion to $13.7 billion, an average annual growth rate of 15.7 percent,"...

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