tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 27

EXPENSES: To Keep Physician Expense Data Fresh, CMS Needs A New Approach, Group Says

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to find a new data source to account for changes in physician expenditures after 2000, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission states. In comments on CMS' 2004 Physician Fee Schedule regulation, MedPAC warned that the most recent American Medical Association survey on physician expenses, which CMS uses to determine the Medicare Economic Index, only goes up to 2000, and the AMA has no plans to conduct it again. For future years, CMS may want to consider a collaborative approach involving the AMA, specialty physician societies, and federal agencies.  Meanwhile, MedPAC...

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