Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
PHYSICIAN NOTES:
MedPAC Recommends 1 Percent Physician Payment Update for 2011
Published on Mon Jan 25, 2010
Plus: Recovery audit contractors post additional target areas that they plan to review going forward.
MedPAC (the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission) recommends that "the Congress should update physician payments for physician services in 2011 by 1.0 percent." The MedPAC vote simply constitutes a recommendation and is not law. In addition, physician practices remain hopeful that Congress will create a more substantial payment fix before 2011.
The MedPAC report is available at www.medpac.gov/documents/Voted%20Recs.01.pdf.
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