News & Updates

• CMS Finalizes CY2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - Payment Cut to Physicians Imminent: TAKE ACTION NOW!

  • Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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  Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule. In the rule, the Agency finalized a significant budget neutrality adjustment arising from previously finalized policy changes to office and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes. The result is a CY2021 physician payment conversion factor of $32.41, a decrease of $3.68 from the CY2020 conversion factor of $36.09. This amounts to a 10.2 percent payment cut for some specialties. 

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• ASNC Leads New Multisociety Letter Urging CMS to Publicly Report Obstacles to AUC Program Implementation

  • Monday, November 30, 2020
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  Citing the new exceptions to the Stark law regulations, ASNC and 15 other groups last week urged CMS to rethink the Appropriate Use Criteria Program. 

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• Stark Law Update: New Exceptions to the Physician Self-referral Regulations Push Providers to Assume More Financial Risk in Value-based Models

  • Saturday, November 28, 2020
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  In a final rule issued Nov. 20, the Trump Administration finalized changes to physician self-referral and anti-kickback rules that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) heralded as “historic” and as a move that will facilitate the Agency's push toward care coordination and innovative payment models across Medicare, Medicaid, and private plans.

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