Last fall, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2019 Final Rule for both the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program (which includes MIPS, the Merit-based ...

Medicare pays for physician services on the basis of a fee schedule. The fee schedule assigns a “relative value” for each service that reflects the estimated resources necessary for that service (in ...

The 2020 Medicare physician payment schedule contains news about coding revisions for outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services that promise to greatly reduce administrative burdens for ...

This is part one of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered include: the role a technical expert panel could play in modernizing the fee ...

Physician groups are sounding the alarm about a pending 2.8% cut in reimbursement under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule announced on Friday. "To put it bluntly, Medicare plans to pay us ...