tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2014 Issue 23

Outpatient Outlook: Tune In to Key Changes Listed in 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Chronic care management gains big victory in new, reimbursable CPT code. Get ready for both good news and bad news in Medicare’s final version of the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) rule. Currently, Medicare providers are under a 0.5 percent payment update patch, thanks to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), protecting them from the 2014 Physician Fee Schedule sustainable growth rate (SGR) cuts. PAMA will then enact a 0 percent update after the new year, through March of 2015. The bad news: According to the 2015 MPFS, if Congress does not act before...

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