TMA to CMS: Reform the GPCIs

Keywords: Medicare  Reimbursement  

TMA's Council on Socioeconomics has urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to adopt more fair and rational methods [PDF] for setting the Geographic Practice Cost Index (GPCI) modifiers to the Medicare physician payment system.

Council Chair Keith Bourgeois, MD, says in a letter to CMS that new payment locality definitions are "long overdue."


Action, Nov. 17, 2008

Last Published: 11/17/2008

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