Fiscal Year 1988 Budget Reconciliation Issues Related to Physician Payment Under the Medicare Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, June 15, 1987, Volume 4 |
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across-the-board adjustment allowed charges anterior chamber appendectomy approach appropriate areas ASIM average believe beneficiaries billion budget reconciliation budget savings carriers Cataract Society cataract surgery Chairman STARK changes cholecystectomy codes colonoscopy Commission's committee complexity Congress costs cuts developed fiscal year 1988 GRADISON HCFA Health Care Financing hospital Hsiao study increase index procedure inherent reasonableness intraocular lens laminectomy lens implant LEVIN long-term reform MAAC Medicaid medical education Medicare Economic Index Medicare payments Medicare physician Medicare program Medicare reimbursement Medicare relative values ment methodology ophthalmologist option overpriced overvalued patient Payment Review Commission payment system percent performed Physician Payment Review physician services PICKLE PPRC practice prevailing charges primary care services problem proposal prostatectomy RBRVS recommendations reduce prevailing charges Refractive Surgery relative value scale ROPER RVSS short-term sigmoidoscopy specialty statement Subcommittee surgical procedures Thoracic Surgeons TURP update urologists