Tag Archive for ‘Medicare physician fee schedule’
2022 Medicare physician fee schedule: How will it affect your practice?
This article reviews provisions in the 2022 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
Medicare physician payment and effective grassroots advocacy: A case study
Outlines how grassroots activity can motivate decision-makers to act on surgery’s behalf and underscores the importance of maintaining momentum in the 117th Congress.
Enhanced web-side manner and digital inclusivity are key to maintaining telehealth momentum
Identifies the benefits of virtual patient care and outlines strategies that support digital inclusivity in telehealth.
Looking forward – February 2021
This column provides a timeline of the events that led to the passage of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to postpone plans to eliminate payment for non-office-based evaluation and management services.
2021 Medicare physician fee schedule: How will it affect your practice?
Editor’s note: This article was posted electronically with the January Bulletin so that surgeons would have access to the important information it provides regarding changes in Medicare payment that took effect that month. Because of delays in the release of the final rule on the updates, this information was unavailable when the print version of […]
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Editor’s note: This article is being posted electronically with the January Bulletin so that surgeons will have access to the important information it provides regarding changes in Medicare payment that took effect this month. Because of delays in the release of the final rule on the updates, this information was unavailable when the print version […]
Dateline DC: CMS releases CY 2021 MPFS Proposed Rule
CMS releases CY 2021 MPFS Proposed Rule, which includes updates on payment policies, reimbursement rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the MPFS.
The 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
This article reviews provisions in the 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
Dateline DC: CMS releases two proposed payment rules
A summary of 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System/Ambulatory Surgery Center proposed rule policies that could affect physician payment is provided.
The 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
This article summarizes provisions in the 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
The 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
This article summarizes provisions in the 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
Dateline: DC—December 2017
This column provides updates on College advocacy and health policy activities, including MPFS, Stop the Bleed, and MACRA.
The 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practice
This article summarizes provisions in the 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule that are relevant to general surgery and its related specialties.
Provisions in the 2016 Medicare physician fee schedule that will affect surgical practice: An overview
This article summarizes the Medicare physician fee schedule provisions that will affect reimbursement for surgeons in 2016.
CMS creates new place of service code for outpatient care at hospitals
This month’s column summarizes the new place of service code and describes the differences between “on” and “off campus” when submitting professional claims.
2015 Medicare fee schedule: How the changes will affect surgical practice
An overview of the provisions in the Medicare physician fee schedule that will affect reimbursement for surgeons in 2015 is provided in this article.
2014 fee schedule and CPT code changes will affect surgical practice
Several changes to payment policy and coding and reimbursement will take effect in 2014. Although the Medicare physician fee schedule and coding changes introduce several important payment and coding policies that will affect all physicians, this article focuses on updates particularly relevant to surgery and other related specialties.
Centennial reprint: 1988 report served as basis for the Medicare payment system
To help commemorate the ACS’ Centennial, the Bulletin is reprinting articles centered on the issues and developments that have defined the character of the organization and the surgical profession for the last 100 years. This month’s reprint from January 1989 looks at the development and implications of what was then known as the Harvard RBRVS. Perhaps no initiative has so profoundly affected the way physicians are compensated for the services they provide than the creation of the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS).
This month’s reprint reviews stakeholders’ reactions to the report, including those of members of Congress; explores the key issues that were unresolved at the time of the report’s release; and considers how the study might have been used to develop payment policies in the future.
The Physician Compare website
This column provides information on how the expansion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Physician Compare website may affect surgeons.
2013 payment policy and coding changes affecting surgical practice
Several changes to payment policy and coding and reimbursement will take effect in 2013. Although the Medicare physician fee schedule and coding changes introduce several important payment and coding policies that will affect all physicians, this article focuses on updates particularly relevant to surgery and other related specialties.
