Bagla,Sandeep -- VA

Document ID: CMS-2011-0131-0309
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: July 20 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: October 12 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 19 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 30 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80ec813e
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Medicare Program: Payment Policies under Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2012

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The cuts that are again proposed, now for multiple years in a row, are not only unfair for work provided, but also will limit care to patients. the assumption that work is reduced when patients have multiple scans in one day and that each scan becomes easier to read is silly. each separate body part requires its own dedicated time and professional interpretation. if we continue on the pace that CMS has set over the past 2 years in imaging cuts, insurance acceptance by imagers wll be gone, imaging will all be interpreted by overseas doctors without US liability or standards, and medicine as a practice will continue to be desimated. Again, a mammogram that diagnoses breast cancer pays a physician 10$ or less and a subway sandwich a chips and soda are about the same. what have we done with our system. targe the right things guys. wake up