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Medicare Program; Physician Fee Schedule Update for Calendar Year 1997 and Physician Volume Performance Standard Rates of Increase for Federal Fiscal Year 1997
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This final notice announces the calendar year 1997 updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule and the Federal fiscal year 1997 volume performance standard rates of increase for expenditures for physicians' services under the Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (Part B) program as required by sections 1848 (d) and (f), respectively, of the Social Security Act. The fee schedule updates for calendar year 1997 are 1.9 percent for surgical services, 2.5 percent for primary care services, and -0.8 percent for other nonsurgical services. While it does not affect payment for any particular service, there was a 0.6 percent increase in the update for all physicians' services for 1997. The physician volume performance standard rates of increase for Federal fiscal year 1997 are -3.7 percent for surgical services, 4.5 percent for primary care services, -0.5 percent for other nonsurgical services, and a weighted average of -0.3 percent for all physicians' services.
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Medicare Program; Physician Fee Schedule Update for Calendar Year 1997 and Physician Volume Performance Standard Rates of Increase for Federal Fiscal Year 1997; Federal Register Vol. 61, Issue
NOTICE
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Final notice.
This final notice announces the calendar year 1997 updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule and the Federal fiscal year 1997 volume performance standard rates of increase for expenditures for physicians' services under the Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (Part B) program as required by sections 1848 (d) and (f), respectively, of the Social Security Act. The fee schedule updates for calendar year 1997 are 1.9 percent for surgical services, 2.5 percent for primary care services, and -0.8 percent for other nonsurgical services. While it does not affect payment for any particular service, there was a 0.6 percent increase in the update for all physicians' services for 1997. The physician volume performance standard rates of increase for Federal fiscal year 1997 are -3.7 percent for surgical services, 4.5 percent for primary care services, -0.5 percent for other nonsurgical services, and a weighted average of -0.3 percent for all physicians' services.
The provisions in this final notice pertaining to the Medicare volume performance standard rates of increase are effective October 1, 1996, and the provisions pertaining to the Medicare physician fee schedule update are effective January 1, 1997, as provided by the Medicare statute. Ordinarily, 5 U.S.C. section 801 requires that agencies submit major rules to Congress 60 days before the rules are scheduled to become effective. However, the 104th Congress adjourned on October 4, 1996, and the 105th Congress is not scheduled to convene until January 7, 1997. The Department has concluded that, in this instance, a further delay in the effective dates in order to satisfy section 801 would not serve the law's intent, since Congress will not be in session during this period, and such delay in the effective dates established by the Medicare statute is unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. The Department finds, on this basis, that there is good cause for establishing these effective dates pursuant to 5 U.S.C. section 808(2).
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