All must share responsibility of working within RBRVS

Article Abstract:

Ophthalmologists and other physicians must accept responsibility for Medicare's need to scale down the payment schedule. When William Hsiao of Harvard prepared a survey on physician payment for the Health Care Financing Administration, members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the AMA met with Hsiao to modify factors used in determining the relative value payment scale. Physicians expected primary care payments to be increased, but were surprised to find payments to surgeons decreased.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Admin. of social & manpower programs, History

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New column give RBRVS advice

Article Abstract:

American Medical News (AMA) launched a new monthly advice column in Mar 1992 to answer readers' questions about Medicare's resource-based relative value scale and payment reform. The AMA's Department of Health Care Financing and Organization and Department of Coding and Nomenclature prepared the answers in consultation with the federal Health Care Financing Administration.

Admin. of public health programs

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HCFA retools practice expense payment formula

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Health Care Financing Administration is in the final stages of revising its proposal for redistributing Medicare practice expense payments to physicians. Practice expense payments account for over 40% of physician compensation in Medicare's fee schedule. The agency is moving towards a resource-based system for practice expenses.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Care Services, Medical care

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