tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 5

Newsbrief: 24 Percent Medicare Pay Cut Averted

Expect level pay through March 31, 2015. You’re probably used to this by now since it has happened each of the past 11 years, but a last-minute law has saved your general surgery practice from a potentially devastating reimbursement loss for services you provide to Medicare beneficiaries.  That’s because the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, signed into law on April 1, halted the 24 percent pay cut for Medicare Physician Fee Schedule services that was to go into effect on that day. Instead, the law replaces the reimbursement cut with a 0.5 percent...

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