Physician Pay

Federal regulators last week finalized a pay rule that will boost payment for an add-on code used by primary care doctors for complex patient care. But observers are warning that providers who care for...

Nursing home owners could face heightened background screening requirements under a proposal tucked more than 1,000 pages into a huge new proposed physician pay rule released Thursday.

Skilled nursing facilities would take a major pay cut in 2023 if Congress were to adopt draft recommendations proposed by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

CMS has finalized its calendar 2021 physician pay rule, which cuts physical and occupational therapy payments for nursing home patients by 9%. Some are questioning the timing of the cuts.

The Obama administration says that proposed reimbursement cuts to Medicare and Medicaid providers shield beneficiaries from access-to-care difficulties, but some experts aren’t so sure.

The Senate said “no” in a key test vote Wednesday to a jobs bill that contains nearly $25 billion in additional Medicaid assistance for states. But the chamber still could pass a scaled-down...

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) on Tuesday submitted to Congress its June 2010 report, which focuses on using Medicare incentives to improve quality of care and make efficient use of...

There could be a five-year fix in the works for the Medicare physician pay schedule, one congressman recently suggested.

A 21.2% pay cut for Medicare physicians takes effect today after a Senate bill that would have prevented it failed to gain enough bipartisan support. The House had passed the bill the day before.