Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Reimbursement:

PHYSICIANS SCORE BIG IN OMNIBUS BILL

Physicians will get a 1.6-percent pay increase from Medicare, rather than a 4.4-percent decrease, under an omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week. The omnibus, totaling almost $400 billion, wraps together the 11 appropriations measures Congress had not managed to pass for fiscal year 2003, which began Oct. 1. Civilian agencies have been operating under a series of stopgap [...]
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