Congress may slice indirect Medicare teaching funds

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Medical schools are concerned that a Republican-dominated Congress may seek to reduce the Medicare budget by decreasing the amount of subsidies for indirect medical education (IME). IME grants fund educational costs for residents, such as the cost of research and diagnostic tests. Pres Clinton's proposed 1996 budget did not reduce Medicare funding. However, Republicans may be inclined to seek spending cuts to reduce the level of federal subsidies.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Subsidies & Grants, Finance, Political activity, Universities and colleges, Medical care, Political aspects, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Medicare, Subsidies, Federal aid to medical education, Government aid to medical education

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AMA to address issues of coding, reimbursement

Article Abstract:

The American Medical Assn's House of Delegates has voted to consider taking action against health insurers that reduce reimbursements to doctors through the grouping of several Current Procedural Terminology codes into a single code. The House also voted to lobby for less stringent Medicare reporting rules involving multichannel clinical lab tests, and to expand the International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification.

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Professional Organizations, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Medical Associations, Management, Physicians, Medical professions, Health insurance, Health insurance industry, Medical societies, American Medical Association. House of Delegates

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