Medicare Part B news from FierceHealthcare
NewsHospitals need to realign physician Medicare reimbursement
Medicare reimbursements for a hospital and its physicians are unaligned, reports RAC Monitor. Because hospitals are reimbursed by Medicare Part A and doctors by Medicare Part B, physicians don't have Read more...
Internal CMS schism slows ACO payment rule development
CMS Administrator Donald Berwick has promised that accountable care organization draft regulations will be out in December. But CMS staff are still wrestling over which ACO payment approaches to Read more...
Streamlined medical billing could save physicians $7 billion annually
"I'm at the office late every night taking care of mindless paperwork, just so the insurance companies can deny payment," a physician colleague told New York Times columnist Pauline W. Chen, MD, for Read more...
Will stop-and-start cycle of physician pay cuts ever end?
Physicians are enjoying a temporary reprieve from Medicare Part B pay cuts, but the battle is far from over. On March 2, President Obama signed into law the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, extending Read more...
HHS Inspector General questions care provided by non-physicians
The HHS Office of the Inspector General has released a report expressing concern that too many services are being performed in physicians' offices by unqualified second parties. Right now, Medicare Read more...
Study: Invasive cardiac treatments may be overused
A new study from Maine raises questions about the frequency of invasive cardiac treatments. The study, in which Maine Medical Center researchers analyzed Medicare part B claims nationwide, found that Read more...
Grassley to introduce imaging self-referral bill
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) plans to introduce a bill that he says would cast a spotlight on physicians' financial incentives to order imaging services. The bill, which will be called the Medicare Read more...
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