MedPAC Weighs Hospital E/M Cuts As Hospitals Lobby To Get ‘Pay For’ Out Of Doc Fix Bill
Congress’ Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Thursday (Dec. 15) discussed a draft recommendation to cut back reimbursements for hospital evaluation & maintenance services, brushing off a letter it received from a hospital industry trade group two days earlier aimed at derailing the proposal, which House Republicans picked up this week as a main payment offset for their ‘doc fix’ bill. MedPAC’s decision to put the E&M cuts, suggested in September by commission staff, into a draft commission recommendation came as key hospital groups were lobbying frantically to convince Senate lawmakers to reject the cuts as they scramble to find their own offsets for a physician payment patch.
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