In its 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS)final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) included asectiontitled “Clarifications for Remote Monitoring Services”, responding to comments
Advances in Healthcare Equity: How the CMS decision to update the 2024 Physician Fee Schedule will expand access to careHailey, JanJournal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship
Some radiation oncologists may breathe a little easier for now because the CMS has decided not to cap certain freestanding radiation oncology reimbursements in its Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule. Richard L. Schilsky, MD Some radiation oncologists may breathe a little easier for now because the...
On July 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a 1,920-page proposed rule that would update payment policies and programs regarding Medicare payments to physicians and other providers under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after January 1, 2024. Every year, ...
November 6, 2024分享 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 (th...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced its proposed rules for theHospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Payment Systems, as well as its calendar year (CY)2024 proposed Physician Fee Schedule(“PFS”), ...
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 paymen...
On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed2022 Physician Fee Schedule(PFS). The PFS helps determine payment and reimbursement rates, clarifies evaluation and management policies, proposes policies for the 2022 performance year of the quality pa...
Among those policies is an expansion of telehealth services under the Physician Fee Schedule. If finalized, the rule would codify recently enacted legislation that removes some statutory restrictions on telehealth use for the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of mental health disord...
The proposed 2022 physician fee schedule, enacted through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, creates opportunities and some new challenges for telehealth. Sean Sullivan and Brian Lee discuss how these changes create new flexibilities but could also restrict Medicare benefic...