Medicare Hcfa Can Improve Methods for Revising Physician Practice Expense Payments

This report evaluates the Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA) proposed practice expense revisions & also includes information on HCFA's ongoing efforts to refine its data & methodologies. Specifically, it focuses on (1) HCFA's approach for estimating the practice expenses directly associated with each medical service or procedure; (2) 2 methodologies HCFA used to adjust the direct expense estimates; (3) practice expenses excluded or limited by HCFA; (4) HCFA's method for assigning indirect practice expenses to each medical service or procedure; & (5) the potential impact of the new fee schedule allowances on beneficiary access to care.Scanlon, William J. is the author of 'Medicare Hcfa Can Improve Methods for Revising Physician Practice Expense Payments' with ISBN 9780788182495 and ISBN 0788182498.