tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 16

MEDICARE: CMS Studying Increase In Physician Spending On Part B Premiums

Intense office visits a cause for increase.Unfortunately for beneficiaries, it appears there is no end in sight to the spending increases they have endured when paying premiums for Medicare Part B; data suggests spending continued to increase at a higher rate than expected in 2004. According to a recent study, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services actuaries predict that hospital and prescription-drug spending growth will moderate a bit over the next decade, noted administrator Mark McClellan March 25. But in the annual Medicare Trustees' Report issued March 23, the actuaries have raised their 2004 estimates of how physician...

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