Medicare Payment Policy: Ensuring Stability and Access Through Physician Payments : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, February 14, 2002, Volume 4 |
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Page 77 - Medicine (ACPASIM) — representing 115,000 physicians and medical students — is the largest medical specialty society and the second largest medical organization in the United States.
Page 21 - Medicare beneficiaries in the most effective way possible. This group will determine what rules need to be better explained, what rules need to be streamlined, and what rules need to be dropped altogether, without increasing costs or compromising quality. To...
Page 23 - Providing free computer and web-based training courses to doctors, providers, practice staff, and other interested individuals can access a growing number of web-based training courses designed to improve their understanding of Medicare. Some courses focus on important administrative and coding issues, such as how to check-in new Medicare patients or correctly complete Medicare claims forms, while others explain Medicare's coverage for home health care, women's health services, and other benefits.
Page 84 - STATEMENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is pleased to present its views on Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala's recommendations regarding the "Confidentiality of Individually-Identifiable Health Information.
Page 74 - Perhaps the most striking example of the payment rate cut can be illustrated by the experience of Dr. Baretta Casey: Dr. Casey has done what the government wants many physicians to do: set up practice in an underserved area, taking care of many patients on Medicare and Medicaid. She came to medicine later in life than many do, as a wife with two children — three by the time she graduated. She wanted to become a family doctor and practice in her Appalachian hometown of Pikeville, Ky.
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Page 22 - We also want to know about the issues and misunderstandings that most affect provider satisfaction with our call centers so that we can provide our customer service representatives with the information and guidance to make a difference. To improve our responsiveness to the millions of phone calls our call centers handle each year, we are: • Developing Call Center Profiles.
Page 52 - Congress has demonstrated its interest in fostering advances in medical technology and making these advances available to Medicare beneficiaries through FDA modernization, increases in the National Institutes of Health budget, and efforts to improve Medicare's coverage policy decision process. The benefits of these efforts could be seriously undermined if physicians face disincentives to invest in new medical technologies as a result of inadequate expenditure targets.
Page 22 - ... regulations, which included a satellite broadcast that was rebroadcast several times prior to the effective date of the regulation. Following these sessions, we held weekly conference calls with regional offices and fiscal intermediaries to enable us to monitor progress in implementing these changes. We are continuing to refine our training on an on-going basis by monitoring the training sessions conducted by our contractors, and we will continue to work collaboratively to find new ways of communicating...
Page 20 - Thompson announced that, as a first step in reforming the Medicare program, we were changing the Agency's name to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The name-change is only the beginning of our broader effort to raise the service level of the Medicare program and bring a culture of responsiveness to the Agency.