“Chances are good that one of your health plan contracts uses fee schedule language that refers to a multiple of a resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS). While it’s likely that the parties understood this multiple of the RBRVS to mean a multiple of the payment method used by Medicare, there is no such thing as an “RBRVS fee schedule” in the Medicare program.”
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Blue Shield of California CEO Bruce Bodaken said he believes that the Supreme Court, which just finished hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, should uphold the individual mandate. “I’m no lawyer and the
Court will decide whatever they decide,” Bodaken told KQED. “But I do know this–we mandate many things in this society. … I have to send my children to school, at least to a certain age. If you want to drive a car, you have to have auto insurance. I don’t think this is all that different.”
