tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 7

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Will Congress Help You Avoid Another Lean January Next Year?

Fixing physician payment mess top priority, Congressman insistsNow that you've finally been rescued from the 4.4 percent cut to your Medicare payments for 2006, Washington is turning its attention to the roughly 5 percent cut that awaits you in 2007.Congress should make fixing the broken physician payment formula a top priority this year, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Joe Barton (R-TX) asserted in a Feb. 15 committee hearing on the White House's health spending priorities. Barton said he wants to work with the White House "on ways to reform Medicare reimbursement, and particularly focus on physician...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 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

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.