tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 22

Physician Notes: Doctors Looking Forward To Competitive Drug Demo

Oncologists most likely to feel effects of new programSome physicians are optimistic about Medicare's Competitive Acqui-sition Program, in which at least two contractors per area negotiate with drug-makers to provide drugs to physician offices.Many physicians have expressed doubts about the CAP program, in which you'll choose between billing for drugs yourself or allowing a vendor to supply the drugs and bill Medicare directly. As proposed, the CAP will require physicians to know which patient will receive which dose of a drug - and on which date. (See PBI, Vol. 6, No. 19).But 27 percent of physicians said...

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