Medicare Physician Fee Schedule News and Resources for Healthcare

New PFS Rule Includes Telehealth Payment, Address Reporting Wins

November 3, 2023 - Though the newly released 2024 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule did not bring good news for all in the healthcare industry, telehealth proponents garnered some critical wins. Effective on or after January 1, 2024, the PFS final rule solidified several telehealth policies, including paying telehealth providers the non-facility rate for...

MedPAC: Lower Telehealth Payments to Pre-Pandemic Facility Rates

June 20, 2023 by Anuja Vaidya

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its 2023 report to Congress last week, in which it made numerous recommendations, including returning to the pre-pandemic lower facility rate...

CMS Faces Calls to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in 2022 PFS

September 03, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

With remote patient monitoring projects surging in popularity as a result of the pandemic, telehealth advocates are lobbying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve proposed...

CMS Expands Remote Patient Monitoring Coverage in Proposed 2022 PFS

July 19, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

Remote patient monitoring may be catching on with health systems across the country, but its path to Medicare reimbursement is still a work in progress. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...

CMS Clarifies 2021 PFS Reimbursements for Remote Patient Monitoring

January 20, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made corrections to the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, opening the door to improved reimbursement for remote patient monitoring. In a January 19...

How CMS Changes, Trump’s Executive Order Affect Telehealth Coverage

August 06, 2020 by Eric Wicklund

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has come out with its long-anticipated plans to expand telehealth coverage beyond the coronavirus pandemic. An advance copy of the proposed 2021...