tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 34

PHYSICIANS: GAO Says 'Concierge Care' Not Causing Concern

... but growing trend could lead to crackdown.The government isn't likely to crack down on "concierge care" any time soon, if legislators heed one agency's advice.Doctors thinking about charging patients for extra services such as same-day appointments or 24-hour personal access to docs can take heart from a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO-05-929). Congress had asked the GAO to study the relationship between Medicare and concierge care, in which physicians charge patients extra for services that Medicare won't cover.The GAO found that because relatively few physicians are providing concierge care it's unlikely to cause...

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