Under the physician fee schedule (PFS), average payment rates will reduce the conversion factor by 2.83% in 2025 compared to 2024 rates, resting at $32.35 in 2025 compared to $33.29 in 2024. The PFS final rule eliminates the temporary 2.93% increase in Medicare physician payments as...
CMS announced itsfinalCY 2025 OPPS and ASC payment rule, which includes policies aimed atsafeguarding maternal careand removing barriers to care for underserved communities. The final rule will also increase Medicare hospital outpatient facility and ambulatory surgical center payment rates ...
HCPCS Codes:CMS solicits comments on 73 new healthcare common procedure coding system (HCPCS) codes effective April 1, 2024, and 127 new HCPCS codes effective July 1, 2024. CMS will also solicit comments on HCPCS codes effective Oct. 1, 2024, and Jan. 1, 2025, in the Final Rule. ...
In its recent final rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), the CMS deferred action in response to the DC Circuit’s vacatur of its low wage index hospital policy and related budget neutrality adjustment in the case of ...
While this has no direct impact on HOPDs and ASCs for the time being, the final rule suggests CMS will pursue such measures in outpatient settings in the future: “We are aware that elective primary THA/TKA procedures are increasingly occurring in ho...
Top Take-Aways From CMS’ Proposed 2025 OPPS and PFS Rules and Final IPPS Rule 11 September 2024 Back to top Authors Judith A. Waltz Sectors Health Care & Life Sciences Providers of Health Care Services Practice Areas Health Care Location Webinar Agenda 2-3:30 p...
“With today’s proposed rule, we are advancing unprecedented efforts to increase transparency in prescription drug costs, being good stewards of the Medicaid program, and protecting its financial integrity. This proposed rule will save both states and the federal government money,” Department of Hea...
CMS will be hosting a webinar regarding Certain Civil Money Penalties for NGHP Responsible Reporting Entities (RREs). The format will be opening remarks and a presentation by CMS that will include reminders about the Final Rule, the auditing process and important dates, followed by a question an...
There are several important policy changes in the proposed rule. First, for CY 2022, CMS received eight applications for device pass-through payments and is soliciting comment on the applications. Final determinations will be made in the final rule. CMS estimated that drug and biological pass...
“Risk Factors” in Tempus’ Final Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on June 17, 2024, pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the Securities Act, as well as in other filings Tempus may make with the SEC in the future. In ...