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Douglas W. Blayney, MD

With the new year, changes in two important federal programs are underway. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement the 2006 Chemotherapy Demonstration Project. Office-based hematologists and oncologists will receive an additional payment of $23 in conjunction with level 2 through level 5 established patient office visits for patients with one of 13 specified cancer diagnoses. This is the current iteration in what is likely to be a series of pay-for-performance or pay-for-data programs that CMS is implementing. The payments incorporated in this year's demonstration project are likely to be transitional, moving away . . . [Click for More]

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