CMS Plans Cost-Cutting Revamp Of Physician Fee Schedule
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Faced with a fast-depleting Medicare Trust Fund, CMS officials say a sense of urgency underlies their efforts to find rational ways to cut payments in the Physician Fee Schedule
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