Medicare Giveback Package Includes $1.5 Bil. For Screening Initiatives
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Increasing Medicare payments for bilateral diagnostic mammography using new technologies to 150% of the current physician fee is scored as costing $400 mil. over five years.
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