Revised Medicare fee schedule for January 1, to February 29, 2012 is up on-line

Friday, January 6th, 2012

The revised Medicare fee schedule for January 1, to February 29, 2012 is up on-line at:

http://www.ngsmedicare.com/wps/portal/ngsmedicare/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDr2BnRzdTEwN3YwMjA0_H0FDXMH8jA3dLM_2CbEdFAOFxTSo!/

Please be sure to review your correct NYS payment locality.

Again, as you should know, CONGRESS voted on at least five (5) separate Medicare Physician Fee Schedules for calendar year 2010.  This caused the Medicare contractors to reprocess physicians’ claims for the first 5 months of the 2010 year and resulted in some peculiar recovery actions. Please use the following link to locate your elected officials and contact them to urge that 2010 not be repeated:  http://www.mssny.org/mssnyip.cfm?c=s&nm=Grassroots_Action The Medicare fee schedule needs to be properly addressed.  Fixing the flawed Medicare payment system and protecting Medicare beneficiaries’ access to doctors is vital.  Congress must pass legislation permanently reforming the SGR and address this issue once and for all.  The pattern of threatened SGR cuts and last-minute Congressional rescues is in itself not a sustainable solution and must be remedied.

Regina

Regina McNally, VP

Division of Socio-Medical Economics

Medical Society of the State of New York

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