Becker's Healthcare June 17, 2019
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has released its June 2019 report on Medicare payment policy to Congress, which includes a recommendation to end “incident to” billing for non-physician practitioners.
Here are five takeaways from MedPAC’s June report:
1. The report examines issues affecting Medicare beneficiaries’ access to primary care. MedPAC recommends eliminating “incident to” billing for advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants and refining their specialty designations to give Medicare a fuller accounting of the services provided by these clinicians and to improve policymakers’ ability to target resources toward primary care.
2. MedPAC said policymakers may want to explore a loan repayment program or scholarship for geriatricians to increase Medicare beneficiary access...
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