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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Issues in physician payment policy (B)

Issues in physician payment policy (B)

March 1, 2005

The Secretary should improve Medicare’s coding edits that detect unbundled diagnostic imaging services and reduce the technical component payment for multiple imaging services performed on contiguous body parts.

Appeared in: March 2005 - Chapter 3

Topics: Physicians and other health professionals.