tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 15

Physicians: McClellan Is To Docs As Scully Was To Hospitals?

New CMS administrator, with links to physicians, reaches out to embattled industry.In one of his first public presentations as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator, Mark McClellan, MD, offered a two-sided message to the American Medical Association's annual national advocacy conference in Washington March 30. His theme: We'll play ball with you on regulatory matters, if you exert your influence to help hold down health-care spending. The "or else" implicit in McClellan's remarks: If you don't help develop a more cost-effective care system, it may be your reimbursement that suffers in the end. Like his predecessor...

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