tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 39

REIMBURSEMENT: Start Preparing Now For Diagnostic Imaging Cuts

You have until 2007 to scuttle all non-compliant PET scan deals The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is gearing up to cut your practice's payments by a whopping 4.4 percent, according to the final physician fee schedule regulation for 2006.  The 4.4-percent cut is "a requirement of existing law," CMS Administrator Mark McClellan told reporters in a Nov. 2 conference call. He called the impending cut further proof that the system isn't sustainable, and "we need to move to a payment system that offers adequate payments for physicians and high-quality services." Bad news:...

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