PHYSICIANS: What Reimbursement Will Look Like In The Future
Johnson still pushing for SGR repeal.At a March 15 hearing, Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT) continued her push for fundamentally restructuring the way Medicare pays physicians.The current system is based on a "sustainable growth rate" formula, which attempts to keep Medicare's physician costs within certain limits by cutting fees when the complexity and volume of services go up. The system as currently constructed would cut physician reimbursements by about 5 percent in 2006 and subsequent years, something Congress is virtually certain not to allow.Many stakeholders want to tinker with the SGR to produce higher reimbursements; for example...
To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.
Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.
Current newsletters added each month
Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products: