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Proposal to Charge Physician 'User Fees' for Medicare Fails to Pass Congress
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Internal medicine practices can breathe a little easier now that proposed legislation that would have charged physicians a $100 enrollment fee to participate in Medicare has failed to obtain Congressional approval.
In addition to the enrollment fee, the bill would have required a $25 annual re-enrollment charge; a $1.00 fee for each paper claim submitted; and a $1.00 fee for every duplicate or unprocessable claim submitted.
The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), lobbied strongly against the legislation, which was to have been included in the last-minute omnibus appropriations bill that must be passed each year to keep the government running.
The budget bill that passed on October 21 did not include the user fee measure.
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