Beginning of the end: Medicare is cutting its reimbursement rates. “Final federal rules issued Wednesday will cut Medicare’s reimbursement rates for doctors next year by 4.4 percent while increasing payments for most hospitals by at least 3.7 percent.”
In a fee-for-service system, what will this do? See more patients, order more tests. The squeeze continues.






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