Medicare program; limitation of reasonable charges for services in hospital outpatient settings--HCFA. Final rule with comment period.
These Regulations limit reasonable charge reimbursement for certain physicians' services furnished in hospital outpatient settings. This will be accomplished by refining the application of Medicare reasonable charge screens to reflect more accurately the reasonable charges for physicians' professional medical services in hospital outpatient settings. The regulations are needed to implement recent legislation that is designed to prevent duplicate payment for overhead expenses associated with the delivery of those services.
D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States