In its 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule released Nov. 2, CMSreducedoverall physician pay by 1.25% and updated the Medicare conversion factor to $32.74, a 3.4% decrease from last year. Nope, a fix wasn’t in any of the “continuing resolutions” Congress passed last year and earlier ...
Other provisions include an increase of the Medicare physician fee schedule by 2.5%, extensions of hospital-at-home waivers and the SUPPORT Act for opioid treatment, blocking patent thickets, billing transparency, the elimination of a $8 billion cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding...