News and noteworthy information for October 2016: CMS Releases MACRA Final Rule Preparing Your Practice for MACRA CPT Editorial Panel – Summary of Panel Actions Palmetto Draft LCD: Noncovered Services Understanding the RUC Survey Instrument CMS Announces New Initiative to Improve Physician Experience with Medicare Deadline for Seeking Review of Potential Payment Penalties CMS Releases...
ISASS Policy & Advocacy News – September 2016 News and noteworthy information for September 2016: MACRA Update: Pick Your Pace Novitas Draft LCD: Percutaneous Vertebroplasty and Vertebral Augmentation FDA Announces Voluntary Payer Participants for Device Pre-Submission Meetings PQRS Negative Payment Adjustment Notification Physicians Spend Nearly Twice as Much Time on EHR/Desk Work as P...
On July 7, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that updates payment policies, payment rates, and quality provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after January 1, 2017. The PFS pays for services furnished by physicians and other practitioners in all sites...
On July 6, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System policy changes, quality provisions, and payment rates proposed rule. (Please note that physician payment is made under the Physician Fee Schedule; hospitals are paid for outpatient services...