…FY 2019 standard payment conversion factor is $16,573, compared to $16,021 in FY 2019. An IRF that does not submit required quality data to CMS would be subject to…

…York Price: Members-$300, Non-members-$550 To view the full agenda, click here. Register here. The AMA Executive Center is sharing its discounts at area hotels; you can access the links…

…final rule with comment period includes: increasing choices and encouraging site neutrality method to control for unnecessary increases in utilization of outpatient services changes to the inpatient-only list ASC-covered…

…standards. In the final rule, the agency announced it will strike the fee-for-service adjuster from the risk adjustment data validation audits (RAD-VA), a tool that would have calculated a…

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…adjust Medicare fee-for-service payments each year, affecting approximately $300 billion in payments. If you’re contacted by BLS, please participate in the survey. Recently, many health care providers didn’t complete…

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…physician spending associated with the pandemic was $9.4 billion (19% below expected). The report also provides estimates by state and specialty. To download the full report, please see the…

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