Medicare program, carrier bonuses for increasing physicians' participation or payments--HCFA. Notice

This notice describes the methodology we will use to award fiscal year 1988 incentive payments to carriers that successfully increase the number of participating physicians, i.e., physicians who agree to accept Medicare's reasonable charge for all Part B services that they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. It implements provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 which require us to publish a notice in the Federal Register describing our system for providing payment of a bonus to carriers based on their performance in increasing the number of participating physicians or the proportion of payment for participating physicians' services in their service areas.