AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 1 (January)
Medicare RBRVS Changes in 2017 (January 2017)
January 2017 pages 3-4 Medicare RBRVS Changes in 2017 Conversion Factor for 2017 The Medicare Access and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 was signed into law on April 16, 2015. The legislation (P.L. 114-10) repealed the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) update methodology for physicians' services in order to provide positive annual payment updates of 0.5% starting July 1, 2015, and lasting through 2019. On November 2, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Final Rule for the 2017 Medicare physician payment schedule (MFS). In order to calculate...
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