SGR Cuts

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Anonymous said:
How is this relevant to us?
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Sustained Growth Rate is vitally important to us. If they go thru it means a 30% decrease in reimbursement. You need to know what you are slamming before you open your mouth.

They were averted at the last minute last year and if you don't think that slash in reimbursement would hurt, go get in another business.
 
























Anonymous said:
Can you say 30% fewer MD's available for the baby boomers????
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Finally, someone who gets it. Just on the threat of this last year so many MDs opted out of Medicare ( that is they would no longer see Medicare pts ) that 22 million seniors were left without a physician to see. That number will more than double if this goes through.
 






Anonymous said:
Sustained Growth Rate is vitally important to us. If they go thru it means a 30% decrease in reimbursement. You need to know what you are slamming before you open your mouth.

They were averted at the last minute last year and if you don't think that slash in reimbursement would hurt, go get in another business.
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They are averted every year dumb*ass. Last year was a 2% increase. The decrease if it does happen is to physicians not companies. Look it up.
 






Anonymous said:
They are averted every year dumb*ass. Last year was a 2% increase. The decrease if it does happen is to physicians not companies. Look it up.
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You are wrong. You can't cherry pick which codes get the cuts and which don't it will decrease the reimbursement to all companies as well. If not and you are so sure provide documentation instead of "look it up". There is a reason the company is sinking it's because of brilliant people like you.
 






Anonymous said:
They are averted every year dumb*ass. Last year was a 2% increase. The decrease if it does happen is to physicians not companies. Look it up.
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so if the physician bills the technical for telemetry they would be affected by the cut but if CN or some other company bills it they are not? How does that work? Would you have two different technical codes? One for MD and one for company? Awesome!!!! We are saved!!!!
 












Anonymous said:
You are wrong. You can't cherry pick which codes get the cuts and which don't it will decrease the reimbursement to all companies as well. If not and you are so sure provide documentation instead of "look it up". There is a reason the company is sinking it's because of brilliant people like you.
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Isn't Wapner on at 4 for you? We can send space missions to Mars, but cant cherry pick codes... classic.
 






Anonymous said:
So you have physicians billing the technical? Yeah, you are the smart one.
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Yeah, just like the all the accounts CN has billing the technical and/or global on the event monitoring. Ever heard of a fee for service arrangement? There are not CPT codes for IDTFs and CPT codes for physicians. They are designed for both, so in theory you could have the same arrangement and there are some companies doing that now with MCT. So how and who decides which reimbursement to assign to who? And where does it say that the proposed cuts in reimbursement does not apply to IDTFs? That makes a lot of sense and I don't think the physician community would mind that at all. What if a physician owns their own holter equipment like CN, LW or Ecardio? Would the cuts not apply to them in that situation?

I think Teletubbies and Wiggles comes on at noon for you!!!
 






Wapner, 4 o'clock... Wapner 4 o'clock.
"Physician services" are what may be cut. Within the global codes is the physician service (pro fee) code. That is the one being threatened idiot.
 






Anonymous said:
You are wrong. You can't cherry pick which codes get the cuts and which don't it will decrease the reimbursement to all companies as well. If not and you are so sure provide documentation instead of "look it up". There is a reason the company is sinking it's because of brilliant people like you.
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Here you go Rainman.

Latest Doc Fix Would Lead to 37% Cut in 2014

Seemingly lost in the gunpowder clouds of partisan politics, once again, is the latest doc fix to the Medicare reimbursement crisis. The House bill passed today would essentially postpone a pay cut for 2 years and, instead, give physicians a 1% raise in both 2012 and 2013.

The bill requires Congress, in the meantime, to work with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Governmental Accountability Office, and the Department of Health and Human Services to replace Medicare's current method for setting physician reimbursement, called the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. This formula, approved by Congress in 1997, is responsible for triggering the massive pay cut set for 2012.

Policymakers will feel mounting pressure to devise a replacement: In 2014, the SGR formula will call for an estimated 37% cut in physician pay, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
 












Anonymous said:
Here you go Rainman.

Latest Doc Fix Would Lead to 37% Cut in 2014

Seemingly lost in the gunpowder clouds of partisan politics, once again, is the latest doc fix to the Medicare reimbursement crisis. The House bill passed today would essentially postpone a pay cut for 2 years and, instead, give physicians a 1% raise in both 2012 and 2013.

The bill requires Congress, in the meantime, to work with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the Governmental Accountability Office, and the Department of Health and Human Services to replace Medicare's current method for setting physician reimbursement, called the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. This formula, approved by Congress in 1997, is responsible for triggering the massive pay cut set for 2012.

Policymakers will feel mounting pressure to devise a replacement: In 2014, the SGR formula will call for an estimated 37% cut in physician pay, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Still hasn't passed the Senate. May not. Physician pay= reimburseable CPT codes, how do you think physicians are paid? If these cuts ever go through companies like CN will not be exempt from the decline in reimbursement. I love how you totally copied the above information word for word. I read the same article.

Being called Rainman from an idiot like you is most certainly a compliment. Thanks Albert!!
 






Once again you show your superior intellect.
Why would anyone retype all that when you can just cut and paste?

Its a miracle!! All the cuts going on in medical the House now says lets give everyone a 1% raise for the next couple years. From Cardionet to Medtronic, we all get a raise for our services. Since they cant "cherry pick" codes they all go up 1%, even 93229!!!! I guess you have nothing to worry about now since no cuts and everything goes up 1%.


Speaking to a Ra-tard gives me a headache. I'm out!
 






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