expressed quality-of-care concerns stemming from a proposed decrease in physician reimbursement in theCMS Medicare Physician Fee 2023 rule, CMS ultimately finalized a payment update that the AHA notesreducespayments by around 4.5%. This has led to...
Lastly, CMS finalized one of its two proposed updates to the Stark Law, which prohibits physician self-referral of certain designated services, for the REH provider type. CMS finalized a policy revising certain Stark Law exceptions to make them applicable to compensation arrangements ...
On November 1, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule(PFS) rule. As finalized, some of the most significant telehealth policy changes include: Discontinuing reimbursement of telephone (audio-only) evaluation and management (E...
Meaningful use penalties: CMS releases physician reimbursement reduction details, latest attestation numbersThe success rate for physicians attesting to meaningful use for electronic health records is improving, but remains dismal: More than three-quarters of eligible professionals (EPs) so far have not ...
Similarly, the University of Maryland School of Medicineannounced last Maythat it is partnering with researchers, computer scientists, and physician-scientists from the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Michigan to create the Center for Medical Innovations in Extended...
11, 2023. The Final Rule with comment is expected to be issued in early November 2023. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the calendar year (CY) 2024 Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Other Revisions to Medicar...
reimbursement from $64 (the facility rate) to $89 (the non-facility rate).Although this payment parity for Medicare telehealth visits has been in place since March 2020 (originally tied to HHS’s public health emergency (PHE) but since extended by CMS until the end of 2023), this policy ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced its proposed rules for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (“OPPS”) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (“ASC”) Payment Systems, as well as its calendar year (CY) 2024 proposed Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”), ...
President-Elect Donald Trump nominated celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead CMS. Healthcare leaders have mixed feelings on the news — for instance, one CEO pointed out that Dr. Oz could advance the food-as-medicine movement, and others noted that his appointment may decrease pharmaceutical...
Additionally, the agency proposed permanently adopting a definition of direct supervision that allows the physician to provide such supervision through real-time audio and visual telecommunications, permanently changing the definition of an interactive telecommunications system to include audio-only,...