tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 7

REIMBURSEMENT: For Rural Docs, They Really Are Green Acres

But is CMS' geographic adjustment hurting more than it helps?Taking into account geographic variation in the cost of living, rural physicians make more than their urban counterparts, and physicians in the most remote rural areas make the most money of all.This counterintuitive finding comes courtesy of the Center for Studying Health System Change. According to HSC's 2000-01 Community Tracking Survey Physician Study, the average annual real income for rural physicians exceeds the average for urban physicians by about 13 percent. After inflating the numbers to 2003 levels, as HSC researchers James Reschovsky and Andrea Staiti do in...

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