As wepreviouslypublished, on July 15, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)published its proposed ruleto update the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2016. Among the many proposals, CMS seeks comment on whether to add Open Payments data to its “Physician Compare” website...
Some radiation oncologists may breathe a little easier for now because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided not to cap certain freestanding radiation oncology reimbursements in its Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, which was issued November 27. Both the American Society fo...
CMS also plans to adopt ahealth equitybenchmark adjustment to incentivize further participation in the Shared Savings Program, specifically by ACOs that serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries inrural and underserved communities. What's more, CMS is actively finalizing a new method fo...
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Here’s what’s in it—and what’s not—for Remote Patient Monitoring, Chronic Care Management and Primary Care. The 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “2025 Proposed Rule”) issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 10, 2024, contains seve...
On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)issuedits Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) Final Rule. In this post, we sample some key highlights from the Final Rule.For more detail, take a look at ourprevious ...
According to the proposed rule, CMS is concerned that state boards may choose to “impose a relatively minor sanction on a physician or other eligible professional for conduct that we deem more serious.” CMS announced that it, “rather than state b...
CMS’ proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, released Thursday (July 13), propels Congress’ end-of-year spending bill extension of most telehealth regulatory waivers forward through Dec. 31, 2024, in a win for telehealth stakeholders. CMS proposes to cleave telehealth payment into two sep...
Because of the current variations in Medicaid physician fees and in the breadth of eligibility across states, the cost of adopting the Medicare Fee Schedule varies considerably among states.Adopting the new Medicare Fee Schedule for Medicaid payments, proposed by policy-makers as a way to increase ...
(HealthDay)—Changes have been proposed to the Physician Fee Schedule to transform how Medicare pays for primary care, focusing on improvements in pay for care coordination and planning, according to a new payment rule published by the Centers for Medica