urology practices: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2025 on July 10, 2024. This outlines potential payment adjustments and policy changes that would take effect starting January 1, 2025. A public comment period will follow, during which CMS will gather feedback to inform the final […]
On July 13, Medicare released its Proposed Rule, which outlined changes to different Medicare programmes including as quality programmes, MIPS, rural employment, telemedicine, and others. This comprehensive yearly document of 2,033 pages covers the planned programme adjustments for fiscal year 2024. Between the release of the Draft Rule and the publishing of the Final Rule […]
CMS has updated Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rates for 2021 after a COVID-19 stimulus package mitigated budget neutrality cuts finalized in a December rule. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 passed by Congress on Dec. 21, 2020, enacted a 3.75 percent increase in Physician Fee Schedule payments for all providers in 2021 to “support physicians and other professionals in adjusting […]