Medicare
Subtitle: geographic areas used to adjust physician payments for variation in practice costs should be revised : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives
Contributors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher: United States Government Accountability Office
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Medical fees; Medicare; Statistics; Economics; Reimbursement Mechanisms; Organization & administration; Costs and Cost Analysis
Other titles: Medicare payment for physician services
Notes: Cover title.

"June 2007."

"GAO-07-466."

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Table of contents: title: Letter (Results in brief; Background; Physician payment localities are primarily consolidations of the carrier-defined localities that were established in 1966, which CMS has since revised using three approaches that were not uniformly applied; More than half of the physician payment localities had counties within them with large payment differences; Several alternative approaches to the physician payment localities could improve payment accuracy while generally imposing minimal additional administrative burden; Conclusions; Recommendations for executive action; Agency comments and our evaluation); title: Appendix I. Scope and methodology; title: Appendix II. Information on configuration of the current Medicare physician payment localities and the alternative approaches; title: Appendix III. Comments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; title: Appendix IV. GAO contact and staff acknowledgments; title: Tables; title: Figures.