DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2016 Issue 12 (December)

Final 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule: Expect cuts to excisional bone biopsy, spinal instrumentation codes

The value of some of orthopedists’ highest volume office procedures will come under CMS scrutiny as a result of the final 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule. However, thanks to a small boost in next year’s conversion factor, your payments for procedures including major joint replacements and femoral fractures will remain steady.

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