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Article: HCFA to soften impact of physician fee schedule. (Health Care Financing Administration)(Washington Report) (Column)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- October 1, 1991
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HCFA to soften impact of physician fee schedule
Details are sketchy, but the Health Care Financing Administration has apparently agreed to revisions that will ease the sting of a proposed Medicare fee schedule for pathologists and other physicians.
As Washington returned to the office after Labor Day, news reports surfaced suggesting that substantial revisions were being made in the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS). Pressure had been applied by organized medicine and members of Congress who viewed HCFA's June 5 proposed fee schedule as a deal buster.
Ironically, it was Rep. Pete Stark--the California Democrat noted for opposing physician ...