…hyperlinks for immediate downloads now available: MIPS Overview Eligibility and Participation Part B Claims Reporting Quality Performance Category Promoting Interoperability Performance Category Improvement Activities Performance Category Cost Performance Category…

…for MFP. This change will also help to promote site-neutrality between hospitals and ASCs and encourage the migration of services from the hospital setting to the lower-cost ASC setting….

…cost indices (GPCIs). With the budget neutrality adjustment to account for changes in RVUs, as required by law, the finalized CY 2020 PFS conversion factor is $36.09, a slight…

…1, 2015, to June 30, 2018. The average penalty will be a 0.71% decrease in payment for each Medicare patient who leaves the hospital over the next year. According…

…purposes of tracking savings under Executive Order 13771, “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,” the savings number is calculated in 2016 dollars and discounted at 7 percent relative to…

…rural hospitals Increases Medicare add-on payments for high-cost eligible new technologies from 50% to 65% Clarifies policies on “substantial clinical improvement” to qualify for new technology add-on payments Provides…

…effort, CMS is looking for data on PA. They are particularly interested in the following data points in advance of taking meaningful action: Practice costs to complete PA tasks,…

…claims made from July 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, but was also made retroactive to January 1, 2019. Providers who billed Medicare for any of the CPT codes…

…invasive spine surgery procedures in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The meeting occurred February 6, 2019, and was focused primarily on CPT code 27279, Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion,…

…pool of funds available for calculating conversion factors. The letter would also allow for adjustments to accommodate increases in practice costs every 5 years that would not be budget…