This is in regard to the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, released by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 29, 2019.  Specifically, the proposed rule proposed a recommended work Relative Value Unit (RVU) of 9.03 of CPT code 27279, Arthrodesis, sacroiliac joint, percutaneous or minimally invasive (indirect visualization), with...

On July 29, CMS published the proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for the 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The proposed changes encourage site-neutral payment between certain Medicare sites of services as well as proposing updates and policy changes under the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System. According...

In the July 29, Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule, CMS indicated a proposed value for CPT code 27279, Arthrodesis, sacroiliac joint, percutaneous or minimally invasive (indirect visualization), with image guidance, includes obtaining bone graft when performed, and placement of transfixing device of 19.88 Total RVUS which maintains the current value of 27279. ISASS had...

On July 29, CMS published the proposed Physician Fee Schedule Rule for 2020. In the proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed several changes that will affect ISASS members: With the budget neutrality adjustment to account for relative value changes, as required by law, the proposed 2020 PFS conversion factor...