Technical Support for the Medicare Fee Schedule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

摘要

After the Notice of Proposed Rule Making for the Medicare Fee Schedule, HealthCare Financing Administration (HCFA) received 95,000 comments pertaining to the proposed rule. Many of these comments were about proposed relative values for work. Since the source of most of these relative values were Harvard's Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) study that was performed by William Hsiao and his colleagues, HCFA contracted with Harvard to respond to the major methodological queries pertaining to relative values for work. The report is comprised of those responses.