This Part B News Special Report summarizes provisions of the final Medicare resource-based relative value fee schedule, slated for publication in the Nov. 25 Federal Register. The fee schedule applies to virtually all 500,000 private practice physicians in the U.S. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) issued the fee schedule after reviewing 95,000 comments on the proposed version (PBN 6/10/91).
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{"title":"Electronic media claims: savings cited by users.","authors":"C Monaco","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"5 20","pages":"8-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20987224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Procedure-specific credentialing. Physician qualifications begin to factor into Medicare payment.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"5 4","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20980589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special report. Congress votes dozens of Part B changes for FY 91.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"4 22","pages":"suppl 1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20980726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guiding HCFA through payment reform. Interview by Roxanne Bolinger.","authors":"G Wilensky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"4 21","pages":"suppl 1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21042730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front-row seat: dramatic (and mundane) moments mark doctor, patient victories & losses at Part B ALJ hearings.","authors":"R Bolinger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"4 18","pages":"suppl 1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20979440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rounding MAACs up to the next dollar: conflicting interpretations of legality befuddle physician offices nationwide.","authors":"R Bolinger","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79703,"journal":{"name":"Part B news","volume":"4 12","pages":"suppl 1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}