Federal officials have finalized the 2020 physician fee schedule that includes major changes in payments and policies for office visits, opioid treatment, and supervision rules for physician assistants. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the new Medicare rule on Friday. Thefin...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services produce a final rules establishing the 2003 physician fee schedule as well as an emergency program memo addressing some of the issues raised in the rule. Concerns of physicians on the possible cuts to their Part B fees; Need to fix the way the ...
The 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposal discusses the expansion of remote patient monitoring (RPM) into remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM).
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 payme...
The proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program rules released by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may usher in a wide range of changes, including a 3.75% reduction in the conversion factor used to calculate payments to physicians. However, according to...
continue to be distant site practitioners for purposes of Medicare telehealth services, CMS anticipates aligning the agency's policy for these services with policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and continuing to make payment to hospitals for these services when furnished by hospital st...
CMS released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule for calendar year (CY) 2024.
CMS Changes to Physician Fee Schedule Face Resistance From Radiation OncologistsSurabhi DangiGarimellaPhD
In the recently issued calendar year 2025 Physician Fee Schedule final rule (Final Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a number of policies related to the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program (the Program). CMS established...
CMS finalized its proposal to exempt excepted off-campus provider-based outpatient departments of rural SCHs from the payment cuts initially adopted by CMS in the CY 2019 final rule. Under that 2019 rule, CMS paid the equivalent of the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) payment rate ...