Proposed fee schedule continues emphasis on quality care payments

Article Overview

This article reviews the 2009 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule from CMS and explains the broad policy themes driving the proposal. It is relevant to physicians, primary care practices, coders, and billing professionals who follow Medicare payment updates, quality reporting initiatives, diagnostic testing oversight, and other regulatory changes tied to the physician fee schedule. The article covers the proposal’s major subject areas, comment period timing, and the kinds of operational and reimbursement issues practices would need to track.