CMS Releases 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule On November 2, 2021, CMS published a proposed rule for the 2022 calendar year (CY) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). CY 2022 PFS Rate Setting and Medicare Conversion Factor The final conversion factor for 2022 is $33.5983, which reflects the expiration of the 3.75% increase for...

Proposed Rule Issued to Revoke 2020 Regulatory Actions On October 27, 2021, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its component agencies submitted a proposed rule to repeal and withdraw the SUNSET final rule that was promulgated on the final day of the Trump Administration. The SUNSET (“Securing Updated and Necessary Statutory Evaluations Timely) final rule would have...

VA Responds to Stakeholder Input Regarding Effort to Streamline Reporting/Coding On July 29, 2021, ISASS and other organizations representing state medical associations and medical specialty societies raised several concerns over the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Supremacy Project, which focused on a national set of standards for VA providers and practitioners. The VA had...

House Members Urge Action to Avert Cuts to Medicare Physician Payments On October 19, 2021, more than 245 members of the U.S. House of Representatives—both Republicans and Democrats—have joined Representatives Ami Bera (D-California) and Larry Bucshon (R-Indiana) in writing a letter to ask that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy support measures to forestall...