Bladder Cancer Surgery

SNM applauds temporary freeze on Medicare cuts ( Society of Nuclear Medicine ) On April 16, the President signed a bill granting temporary relief from looming cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates. Although a positive step, the medical community — along with millions of patients — continues to face significant threats to medical coverage for critical diagnostic imaging tests and therapeutics. Read more on EurekAlert!

The effect of changes in Medicare reimbursement on the practice of office and … UroToday Among all treated lesions that were associated with a diagnosis of bladder cancer and nonbladder cancer, the OR for a procedure occurring in the office …

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Following the Medicare reimbursement plan of 2005, which increased payments to physicians for outpatient surgeries for bladder cancer, a dramatically higher number of bladder cancer cases were treated in the outpatient or physician office setting, but the number of hospital-based bladder cancer procedures did not significantly decline, according to a report published today in Cancer. (Source: Health Imaging News) Source: MedWorm: Bladder Cancer

Procedures performed in the office offer potential cost savings. Recent analyses suggest, however, that a fee-for-service system may incentivize subscale operations and, thus, contribute to excessive spending. The authors of this report sought to characterize changes in the practice of office-based and hospital-based endoscopic bladder surgery after 2005 increases in Medicare reimbursement.All office and hospital-based endoscopic surgeries that were performed in a faculty practice from 2002 through 2007 were identified using billing codes for procedures, diagnoses, and procedure locations and then analyzed using the chi-square test and logistic regression. Costs were estimated based on published Medicare reimbursements for office and hospital-based surgeries.In total, 1341 endoscopic bladd… Source: MedWorm: Bladder Cancer

Upping payments for bladder biopsies done in doctor’s office boosted overall spending, study found Source: HealthDay

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Medicare Reimbursement Change Meant To Save Money Has Opposite Effect Increased Medicare payments to physicians for outpatient surgeries for bladder cancer have led to a dramatic rise in the number of these procedures being performed and an overall increase in cost to the healthcare system. Read more on redOrbit

NEW YORK, Feb. 11 (UPI) — An attempt to reduce Medicare costs by allowing doctor’s office biopsies for bladder cancer pushed costs up 50 percent, U.S. researchers found. (Source: Health News – UPI.com)

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Medicare’s move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. (Source: Reuters: Health) Source: MedWorm: Bladder Cancer

Changes in Medicare reimbursement meant to cut costs in bladder cancer appear to have the increased them, at least in one academic practice. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines) Source: MedWorm: Bladder Cancer

Reuters: “Medicare’s move in 2005 to pay doctors to do bladder cancer surgery in their offices rather than in hospitals dramatically raised the number of procedures and overall health costs, U.S. researchers said on Monday. … The findings reflect the complexity of cutting health costs in the United States, showing how in some cases Medicare — the insurance program for the elderly and disabled — gives doctors incentives to provide too much care, they said… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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