Medicare Physician Fee Cuts on the Horizon
If the Proposed 2007 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule is adopted in final, Physicians can expect a 5.1% decrease in Medicare reimbursement which CMS claims is in response to the fact that spending on physicians’ services and other Part B services has been growing at a much faster rate than target spending. The 2007 Fee Schedule as proposed would also continue to impose the 25% reduction in payment for the technical component of multiple imaging procedures on contiguous body parts which was first imposed in 2006.
