tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 13

Physicians: MedPAC Suggests Productivity Measures For Doc Pay

Recommendation would alter the way physician payment updates are calculated.In 2005 Medicare should update physicians' payment based on the annual change in input prices adjusted by a productivity-growth target. That's according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March report, which finds that Medicare's payments to physicians are currently adequate to ensure beneficiary access. For the past few years, MedPAC has advocated changing the so-called sustainable growth-rate formula Medicare has been using to make physician payments.                   In an attempt...

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