PHYSICIANS: Your Payment System Doesn't Account For Drug Discounts You Never See, MedPAC Says
You could receive pay boosts of up to 3-percent per year.If you took away all the mistakes that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had made over the years in calculating the annual updates to physician payment rates, you would still be in for a cut of around 2.4-percent to 4-percent per year, says one influential body.But if the feds based each year's update only on comparing last year's spending with a target, you could receive an annual pay boost of up to 3 percent, according to a presentation at the Medicare Payment Advisory...
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