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Part B Pay:

MedPAC Recommends Big Cuts to Specialists' Pay

Published on Fri Oct 01, 2010

Plus: Under advisory body's latest suggestions, primary care docs would face ten year pay freeze. Part B practices are already having a tough time fighting pay cuts scheduled for this January, and a new list of cost-cutting suggestions from an influential advisory body to Congress won't help income levels rise. In its September meeting, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) proposed a set of draft recommendations with a host of Part B items. The list includes recommendations MedPAC has made in previous reports to Congress (Tier I) and new suggestions (Tier II). The proposals aim to offset a fix to the physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) reimbursement problem. During its presentation entitled "Moving Forward from the Sustainable Growth Rate System," MedPAC recommended to avoid the nearly 30 percent pay cut in 2012 by scrapping the SGR and replacing it with a pay freeze to primary care physicians for the next [...]
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