Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008/Title I/Subtitle C

— PROVISIONS RELATING TO PART B

 * PART I—PHYSICIANS' SERVICES
 * Sec. 131. Physician Payment, Efficiency, and Quality Improvements.
 * Sec. 132. Incentives for Electronic Prescribing.
 * Sec. 133. Expanding Access to Primary Care Services.
 * Sec. 134. Extension of Floor on Medicare Work Geographic Adjustment Under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
 * Sec. 135. Imaging Provisions.
 * Sec. 136. Extension of Treatment of Certain Physician Pathology Services Under Medicare.
 * Sec. 137. Accommodation of Physicians Ordered to Active Duty in the Armed Services.
 * Sec. 138. Adjustment for Medicare Mental Health Services.
 * Sec. 139. Improvements for Medicare Anesthesia Teaching Programs.


 * PART II—OTHER PAYMENT AND COVERAGE IMPROVEMENTS
 * Sec. 141. Extension of Exceptions Process for Medicare Therapy Caps.
 * Sec. 142. Extension of Payment Rule for Brachytherapy and Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals.
 * Sec. 143. Speech-Language Pathology Services.
 * Sec. 144. Payment and Coverage Improvements for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Other Conditions.
 * Sec. 145. Clinical Laboratory Tests.
 * Sec. 146. Improved Access to Ambulance Services.
 * Sec. 147. Extension and Expansion of the Medicare Hold Harmless Provision Under the Prospective Payment System for Hospital Outpatient Department (HOPD) Services for Certain Hospitals.


 * Sec. 148. Clarification of Payment for Clinical Laboratory Tests Furnished by Critical Access Hospitals.
 * Sec. 149. Adding Certain Entities as Originating Sites for Payment of TeleHealth Services.
 * Sec. 150. MedPAC Study and Report on Improving Chronic Care Demonstration Programs.
 * Sec. 151. Increase of FQHC Payment Limits.
 * Sec. 152. Kidney Disease Education and Awareness Provisions.
 * Sec. 153. Renal Dialysis Provisions.
 * Sec. 154. Delay In and Reform of Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Acquisition Program.