See below for the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Announcement on July 10, 2024 proposing a reduction in the Medicare Conversion Factor payment from $33.29 to $32.36, i.e. 2.8%...more
CMS proposed several telehealth changes in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, issued July 10, 2024....more
CMS issued the Final Rule for the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on November 2, 2023, for payments to be effective on or after January 1, 2024. Fee Schedule Link The overall payment rates under the PFS will be...more
The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposes a 3.34% decrease in the 2024 PFS conversion factor. It’s currently $33.89 and is proposed to be reduced to $32.75....more
The final “2023 Omnibus Bill” which is the spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Biden at the end of 2022, provides partial relief from the scheduled Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Conversion Factor cuts. ...more
On July 7, 2022, CMS released its proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2023, which proposes physician fee schedule reductions via the Medicare Conversion Factor. ...more
CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Update -
On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act modified the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS)...more
Attached is a link to the fact sheet for “proposed policy, payment, and quality provisions changes to Medicare physician fee schedule for calendar year 2021”.
Among other things, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...more
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the new hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center fee schedule for 2021 on August 12, 2020.
As part of the proposed revisions, CMS intends to transfer over...more
The final Medicare 2019 Physician Fee Schedule https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/PhysicianFeeSched/index.html rule was posted on November 1, 2019, to be effective January 1, 2019. It includes...more
The 2019 proposed Medicare Fee Schedule was published on July 27, 2018 by CMS at https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-14985.pdf.
Pages 61 through 91 of the Executive Summary are devoted to:...more
Just as a point of providing information, please note that CMS has revised its Medicare Learning Network (MLN) booklet for telehealth services. The February 2018 edition is included in this link....more
The 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule finalizes the CMS changes for Telehealth reimbursement and coverage for 2017. The CMS fee schedule document also provides a comprehensive explanation of Medicare Telehealth...more
Iowa Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Telemedicine Abortions -
An Iowa Board of Medicine rule requires the presence of a physician when abortion inducing drugs are provided....more
On July 21, 2014, I posted the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, and described the intent by CMS to eliminate global surgery.
On November 13, 2014, CMS issued the final 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, and...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 issued the poroposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Without Comf=gressional intervention, the SGR will mandate a 24>4% decrease. CMS sent its calcuations to the Medare Payment Advisory Commission....more