title: College responds to HCFA's final Medicare fee schedule.
abstract: On March 24, 1992, the American College of Surgeons submitted its official comments on the relative value units published in the final rule to implement the new Medicare fee schedule to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). The following article provides background information on the Medicare fee schedule, describes the process the College used in developing its comments, and summarizes the comments themselves.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005245:Fee Schedules / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016345:Medicare Part B / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015895:Relative Value Scales; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States