Thank you very much. We appreciate all of you.
For Medicare, if I am on Medicare, a utilization manager is going to make that decision.
I mean, do we have to wait for the next RAC contract to be finalized before we would implement those suggestions?
If there is no difference in the treatment and there is no difference in what happens, then why do we need time constrai...
I cannot find that well-defined set of clinically appropriate circumstances.
I think if we went to no contingency and just a flat fee, you take away the incentive for them to ferret out people who ...
Thank you, Senator Collins, for giving me the opportunity to remember how it was in the good old days.
Yes. You guys really need to get after this in the next contract.
I have to go to the emergency room for something. Who makes the decision whether or not my status is observation or whet...
As Senator McCaskill said, it can be thousands of dollars because there is no limit on that 20 percent in observation.
I certainly want to thank Senator Collins for all of the years of work she has put into this issue, and I know her knowl...
Should we not, like, make this a little simpler?
I will begin with questions and then ask the other Senators to make their questions.
I am concerned that it could lead some patients to not get the care that they need or not get the diagnosis that they ne...
We need to understand what is causing it and we need to make sure that it makes sense, most importantly, for the patient...
I think, going forward, that these ACOs are really our best hope to handling our generation and the costs that will be a...
the patient should certainly know their status and know it as early as possible.
I think it would be.
