Cut in Physicians Payments Replaced by Increase

CAL/AAEM News Service calaaem_news at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 2 21:58:46 PST 2008


Cut in Physicians Payments Replaced by Increase

Source: American Academy of Emergency Medicine ( http://www.aaem.org )
Date: December 21, 2007


AAEM is happy to share the following news with you.

In addition to replacing the scheduled 10.1% cut in payments to physicians with an 0.5%
increase, the Medicare package approved by the Senate and the House this week extends the
"pay for performance" system in which doctors report data on the quality of their care. 
It also revises a mechanism -- the Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund --
that can be used to pay doctors more for the reporting of that data.
 
In addition, the agreement extends through June 30, 2008, a 5% bonus payment to doctors
who practice in areas where there are relatively few physicians.
It also extends through that date the current floor on payment levels to physicians that
can be calculated using an index that adjusts for geographic differences in wages.

Happy Holidays!


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Abid Mogannam &
Brian Potts MD, MBA
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

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