Inside DoctorsManagement: A Message from the President
Volume 2, Combined Issue 2 & 3
April 2014
The Good, The Bad and The Concerning
Here we are into the second quarter of 2014 and it seems the controversy surrounding health care could not be greater. To date, we have seen that both the House and the Senate passed measures to delay ICD-10 as well as create yet another temporary patch for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Last week’s patch was the 17th patch to the highly-flawed and antiquated reimbursement model, and it does nothing to fix the overall prob-lem- it merely delays it further. Groups including the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, and the Alliance of Specialty Medicine strongly opposed the 12-month SGR patch because it further stalls efforts to permanently repeal the SGR. It is important to understand that the bill passed does much more than simply delay the SGR’s planned cuts and delay ICD-10. The bill in-cludes the following noteworthy points, as well as others not as relevant to provider-based services:
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