Kueter, Joseph--AR

Document ID: CMS-2010-0205-0050
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: July 20 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 24 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 13 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 24 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80b1d97f
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare Program: Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions toPart B (for CY 2011)

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Any decrease to physician reimbursements is absurd. The cost of doing business continues to rise so decreasing reimbursement is counterintuitive. If I lose money seeing Medicare patients then I will be forced to quit seeing them. Everyone has agreed that the SGR method (which also wants to decrease reimbursements) is flawed. So why propose another rule that decreases reimbursement on top of that??? It doesn't make sense. I am against any decrease in Medicare physician reimbursement.