Omnibus Budget Bill Includes Physician Payment Cut Relief On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the 2023 Omnibus Budget Bill into law. The Bill had been approved by the House and Senate on December 23. The bill includes several health care–related allocations, including, most critically, relief from the scheduled Medicare physician payment cuts that would...
CMS Extends 2022 MIPS EUC Deadline to March 3 On December 29, 2022, as a result of medical associations’ (including ISASS’s) advocacy and outreach, CMS has extended the deadline to file a 2022 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances (EUC) hardship extension until March 3, 2023. The original deadline was January 3,...
ISASS Submits Request for New Diagnostic Codes for Low Back Pain On December 2, 2022, ISASS submitted a request to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee for new ICD-10 diagnostic codes for discogenic low back pain with leg pain. The request will be reviewed in a public forum meeting in March 2023 with publication of...
2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule: Updated and Increased Reimbursement for Spine Surgery Procedures As a result of ISASS’s comprehensive and persuasive comments as well as meeting with CMS after the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule was released, CMS changed their position on the proposed payment cuts for most of the codes and...