CEO SUMMARY: During negotiations to extend the payroll tax cut in February, Congressional negotiators agreed to end the technical component (TC) grandfather provision for more than 1,000 rural hospitals. Seeking to save $50 million annually, Congress said anatomic pathologists would no longer be able to bill Medicare for the TC services on surgical specimens. Pathologists […]
Hospitals Get Bad News Re: TC Grandfather Expire
Anatomic pathologists and rural hospitals need to negotiate new payment arrangements by July 1
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XIX No. 6 - April 23, 2012 Issue
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