Providing Stability and Security for Medicare Reimbursements

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 30, 2010)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 37973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16128]

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Part IV

The President

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Memorandum of June 25, 2010--Providing Stability and Security for
Medicare Reimbursements

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Title 3--
The President

Memorandum of June 25, 2010

Providing Stability and Security for Medicare
Reimbursements

Memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human
Services

I have today signed into law H.R. 3962, the
``Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare
Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010'', which
averts a 21.3 percent reduction in the Medicare
physician fee schedule and replaces it with a 2.2
percent increase through November 2010. By this
memorandum, I request that you immediately take the
following steps to minimize any disruption to, or
administrative burden on, Medicare physicians and other
affected providers and to minimize any disruption in
the ability of Medicare beneficiaries to access
necessary services:

(a) Direct the Medicare claims administration
contractors to immediately implement the legislative
update to the physician fee schedule conversion factor;

(b) Provide all appropriate resources for the Medicare
claims administration contractors to ensure the update
is implemented as rapidly as possible;

(c) Direct the Medicare claims administration
contractors to automatically reprocess, to the extent
feasible, any claims reflecting the 21.3 percent fee
schedule reduction, in order to relieve the
administrative burden on physician practices;

(d) Take all necessary steps, to the extent permitted
by law, to protect Medicare beneficiaries from any
disruption to their access to services that may be
occasioned by the reprocessing of claims; and

(e) Reopen the 2010 Annual Participation Enrollment
Program through July 16, 2010, to allow physicians and
other affected providers an additional opportunity to
participate in Medicare.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, June 25, 2010.