2025 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule highlights urgent need for Medicare payment reform.https://www.aafp.org/news/media-center/statements/2025-proposed-medicare-physician-fee-schedule.html. Published July 10, 2024. Accessed July 11, 2024....
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 ...
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”),...
Proposed Physician Fee Schedule Update Implements Key Reform ProvisionsEsther Chang WeeseEmily J. CookPeter R. LeoneArnold V. Pamplona
On July 13, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the annual Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (“Proposed Rule”).1Among other things, the Proposed Rule addresses telehealth reform, particularly around mental health services...
On July 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its annual proposed rule updating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2023, which included various proposed changes related to the provision of telehealth, including implementing telehealth provision...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed ruleearlier this month. Alongside a2.8 percent payment cutfor physicians, the rule includes numerous proposals directed at virtual care, including brand new codes for certain digital t...
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...
continue to be distant site practitioners for purposes of Medicare telehealth services, CMS anticipates aligning the agency's policy for these services with policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and continuing to make payment to hospitals for these services when furnished by hospital st...