Report Criticizes Imaging Payment Cuts To Physician Offices
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Imaging stakeholders are pushing a new report that finds Medicare imaging service payments to physician office and hospital outpatient settings were already on equal aggregate footing before Congress stepped in with big cuts to the former setting earlier this year
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