AMA supports HCFA changes
AMA supports HCFA changes
Besides calling for congressional hearings into how the Health Care Financing Administration manages its anti-fraud programs, delegates to the American Medical Association’s Dec. 2 interim meeting also approved reports:
• demanding major changes in Medicare prepayment and post-payment review programs that would require physicians to receive due process and accurate and clinically informed review of their services;
• calling for well-designed pilot tests to assess any new E/M guidelines before implementation by HCFA;
• reaffirming the AMA’s efforts to advance other alternatives to numerical guidelines as a basis for coding review, including peer review of statistical outliers.
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