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 several new policy proposals with significant implications for healthcare innovators. Here is an overview of the most signi...
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 Medicare Part B (CMS-1784-P) Proposed Rule, which includes proposals related to Medicare physician...
Comments on the proposed rule are due Sept. 9; the published document can be found at https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2024-14828/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-calendar-year-2025-payment-policies-under-the-physician-fee-schedule. References: Congress must...
More than 3 decades have passed since Congress enacted and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) as the basis for the Medicare physician payment system. During that period, the American Medical Association/Specialty S...
On July 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual Proposed Rule updating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2024, which includes various proposed changes related to the provision of remote physiologic monitor
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...
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, ...
‘Band Aids Don’t Work’: Nursing Home Physicians, Therapy Providers Decry Medicare Payment Cuts, Impact on Care ByAmy Stulick|November 8, 2024 Last week’s finalized 2.83% cut to the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which follows a series of payment reductions of recent years for rehab and...
The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee jointly released their draft legislation to reform physician payment under Medicare on October 30. The Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee jointly released their draft legislation to reform physician payment under ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), has released the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). This doubles the 3.75 percent harmful cut to surgeons and surgical practice that will negatively impact patient access to care. [Read more…] Filed Under: Medicare Knowledge & Awa...