Under the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, CMS proposes several modifications to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) that would become effective in performance year 2025. CMS also proposed...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to extend a number of COVID-era regulatory flexibilities related to telehealth, remote services, and supervision in the CY 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)...more
7/30/2024
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CMS's FY 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule) includes several noteworthy proposals and requests for information related to graduate medical education (GME) payment policies. Below...more
5/22/2024
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The CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (Final Rule) implemented several statutory extensions to COVID-19 telehealth waivers and flexibilities, finalized proposed policies, and extended an important telehealth...more
In this article, we highlight a number of policy proposals in the current year (CY) 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule that have significant health care delivery and operational implications. These...more
CMS recently released the CY 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule (Proposed Rule), which included many noteworthy proposals and clarifications related to Medicare telehealth services and other remote...more
On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule (Final Rule), which finalized several noteworthy policies related...more
On July 13, 2021, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, which includes several noteworthy proposals related to telehealth, billing for split (or shared) visits, critical...more
The Department of Health and Human Services has released extensive and significant revised final rules governing the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark law) and the Medicare Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) in furtherance of...more
12/21/2020
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On December 1, 2020, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Final Rule (Final Rule), which includes several policies to extend or make permanent certain policies to support expanded...more
12/7/2020
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