Medicare : 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.
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Washington, D.C. :
United States Government Accountability Office,
[2007]
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| Series: | U.S. Congressional Research.
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Table of Contents:
- 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)
- Appendix I. Scope and methodology
- Appendix II. Information on configuration of the current Medicare physician payment localities and the alternative approaches
- Appendix III. Comments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Appendix IV. GAO contact and staff acknowledgments
- Tables
- Figures.