tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 30

PHYSICIANS: Brace Yourself For 5.1-Percent Cut Next January

Multiple imaging scan discount won't rise next year after all.It's worse than you've feared. Instead of the 4.7-percent cut to Medicare payments you were dreading next year, Medicare wants to slash your payments a whopping 5.1 percent. That's the maximum amount the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can cut your payments in one year, according to the law. The steep cut comes from skyrocketing costs--plus the fact that Congress keeps canceling annual cuts without including them in the calculation for the following year's growth rate."Our current system is not sustainable, either from the...

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