CMS Describes Plans for Physician Payments
CAL/AAEM News Service
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Wed Jan 18 12:32:14 PST 2006
CMS Describes Plans for Physician Payments
Source: AAMC Washington Headlines (http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/washhigh/start.htm)
Date: January 13, 2006
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Director of the Center
for Medicare Management Herb Kuhn Jan. 6 sent a letter to House Ways and
Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) describing CMS plans
related to physician payments and claims processing. The delay in final
Congressional action on the House and Senate-passed Deficit Reduction
Act (S. 1932) resulted in a 4.4 percent cut to physician payments
effective on Jan. 1, 2006. CMS has indicated that physicians and other
Part B providers should not hold claims. The letter to Rep. Thomas
states that upon enactment of the pending legislation, which will update
payments to zero percent effective Jan. 1, CMS will immediately issue
instructions to carriers and fiscal intermediaries instructing them to
automatically reprocess claims that were already processed at the
negative 4.4 percent update. Providers will not need to resubmit
claims.
Information: Denise Dodero <ddodero at aamc.org>, AAMC Division of Health
Care Affairs, 202-828-0493.
The complete story is at:
http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2006/011306/start.htm#2
Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine
The CAL/AAEM Archives are available at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/calaaem/
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