Medicare : Payments to Physicians.

Explains the Medicare fee schedule for payments to physicians under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 and calculation of the fee schedule's annual update. Reviews changes to the fee schedule under P.L. 108-173, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 20...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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