tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 10

REIMBURSEMENT - MedPAC: Set Medicare Doc Pay Updates Based On Pay Adequacy

Find out what's on deck if SGR formula gets scrappedThe Medicare Payment Advisory Commission wants Congress to replace the current system of automatic formula-driven annual payment updates for Medicare physicians with a new system "based on an analysis of payment adequacy." That's what MedPAC Chair Glenn Hackbarth told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Feb. 10. And while it still doesn't seem likely that Congress will manage a long-term fix for physician payments in this busy and increasingly contentious legislative year, many are growing frustrated with the failure of their past attempts to mend the current "sustainable...

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