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December 4th, 2009

The Final CMS Rule Is Flawed

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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 […]