MedPAC Urges CMS To Boost MRI, CT Physician Use Rate Assumptions
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is recommending that Congress increase the normative standard imaging equipment use rate assumption from 25 hours to 45 hours per week in setting Medicare reimbursement for "expensive" physician-office imaging procedures, such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
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