If you are a physician, mid-level provider, or work with those providers, then you have been bombarded with new acronyms for new programs and promises to remove older acronyms from your Medicare vocabulary. Medicare...more
On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law a permanent sustainable growth rate (“SGR”) fix. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (“MACRA”) eliminates the Medicare SGR methodology, which has been...more
On October 31, 2014, CMS released the CY 2015 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule. CMS calculated the conversion factor using the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Due to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, there...more
CMS has issued the Proposed 2015 Physician Fee Schedule and Fact Sheets for specific issues (ASC, ESRD, Home Health, Physician Quality Programs)....more
CMS has released its much-anticipated final rule with comment for the Calendar Year (CY) 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The final rule prescribes physician payment rates that will go into effect on January 1,...more
What is the SGR? The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula was enacted in 1992 as a statutory means of controlling Medicare spending by calculating annual updates to the Medicare physician fee schedule. The fee...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the calendar year 2014 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule)....more