DXA reimbursement will be cut 75% by 2010 if Congress does not act now. Reimbursement for imaging studies such as DXA has been reduced to the Hospital Outpatient Perspective Payment System (HOPPS) rate, based on a Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) provision. This reduction not only negatively affects rheumatologists who perform imaging studies in their offices, but will also affect access to care and increase costs for Medicare beneficiaries.
Profiling Providers: Is Your Practice Ready?
Medicare may start profiling physicians as soon as mid 2008. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) develop a profiling system to identify physicians with inefficient practice patterns. At a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health hearing, Herbert Kuhn, acting deputy administrator of the CMS, said that identifying inefficient physicians, or “profiling,” would involve comparing the number of tests ordered by a physician for certain types of patients with the number ordered by colleagues in cases with the same outcome.
Public Service and the Rheumatologist
Civic duties may soon be too burdensome for even willing public servants
Rheumatology’s Chronic Crisis
How should we deal with a shrinking workforce and expanding patient pool?
Top 11 Ways You Can Advocate
Many of the specialty’s challenges and goals hinge on your participation
Rheumatology Attracts TOP Fellows
Workforce study shows positive trends in rheumatology training
Research with Impact
Impact factor’s influence on peer-reviewed journals – and authors – is on the rise
Meet the Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Challenge
Limited evidence and diagnostic options make this increasing condition difficult to treat
The Peripatetitc Theodore Pincus, MD
Tireless champion for patient self-report
Reading Rheum
Handpicked Reviews of Contemporary Literature
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