tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 14

Physicians: Medicare Needs More Up-To-Date Data On Practice Expenses

MedPAC also wants to coordinate care for patients with chronic conditions.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could make the tangled process of figuring out practice expenses a lot easier, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.CMS could set a schedule to review clinical staff wages and supply costs on a regular basis. The agency also could review the costs of more expensive and newer items more often than other items, commissioners say. And finally, CMS could scrap the assumption that providers use each piece of equipment at 50 percent of its capacity.Currently, CMS figures out...

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