PPRC split on Medicare updates; surgical pay hikes pose perplexing questions
Article Abstract:
Definitive recommendations from the Department of Human Resources and the Physician Payment Review Commission on whether surgical fees should be raised more than other fees in 1993 have been delayed due to a conflict the issue raises between two tenets of the 1989 Medicare payment reform law. According to the law's volume performance standard, the fees should be raised. To do so, however, would conflict with reform of the resource-based relative value scale payment system, which aims to reduce the difference between surgical and primary care fees.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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HHS red tape frustrates doctor hassle panel
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A panel of doctors was asked to serve on the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council to inform the Department of Health and Human Resources about the workability of Medicare regulations. However, the group was given an impossible deadline on recommendations for self-referral laws, the referral by physicians of patients to a medical facility in which the doctors have financial interests but do not provide care. The Health Care Financing Administration revealed plans to apply the law retroactively.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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Local Medicare advisory panels
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The Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) Advisory Committee on Medicare Physician Relationships issued a number of suggestions designed to improve trust and working relationships between physicians and Medicare carriers. HCFA Senior Medical Advisor Nancy Gary reported that the establishment of Medicare advisory committees is probably the best way to improve relations between physicians and carriers. Several additional committee suggestions are reviewed.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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