Can Chairman Baucus include in his letter some other stuff like getting rid of plan of care, physician referral requirement, explicit provider list, inconsistent supervision between part A and part B?
Can Baucus remind them that outpatient PT is less than 2% of part B budget and is the only medical service that went down in real dollars (not the make believe government decrease from increase one’s we always read about) between 2004 and 2006 per their own data? This is despite the fact that more beneficiaries were treated than the prior years.
Can’t we get a little pay for performance via some relief from the very regs that are putting freestanding outpatient clinics under huge financial strain and compliance pressure trying to determine if their manual therapy intervention is group therapy or not?
Will Secretary Leavitt throw Baucus’ letter away like he did mine.
Does government really run this way? First, hold our claims. Second, clarity on caps/modifiers and now, hold the phone caps might be cleared.
Anybody for Gov’t run universal health care?
