December 4th, 2009
The Final CMS Rule Is Flawed
vincentjbufalino and Larry Husten, PHD
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Final Rule on the cardiology fee schedule (download the entire 450-page document here) is an ill-conceived policy change that will drastically affect the practice of cardiology in the United States. Relying on limited, unrepresentative data from the Physician Practice Information survey (PPIS) done by the AMA, the CMS determined that […]
