BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 12

CLARIFICATION: CMS Releases 2021 Final Rule

At long last, CMS has published its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, and while some of the provisions will be widely felt across many specialties, there are no major or unexpected deviations from the proposed rule. The agency typically releases the PFS final rule at the end of October or in the first two weeks of November. This time the document – which weighs in at 2,165 pages – arrived much later, on Dec. 1, amidst an unusual and contentious presidential transition.Major provisions include a significant reduction to the Medicare conversion factor, offset by higher...

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