Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

The agency is accepting comments on the proposal through July 25. Hoping to avoid a one percent hit to your Part B pay next year? CMS may be making that a little bit easier. As you are probably aware, starting in 2012, you may be subject to a one percent payment adjustment on your Part B pay if you don't successfully participate in eprescribing this year. In 2013, that payment adjustment will go up to 1.5 percent, and in 2014 it will rise to two percent. Although CMS previously announced ways that practitioners could avoid the penalty, physician practices complained that the exemptions were too limited and did not cover all of the realistic scenarios. To that end, CMS proposed four additional ways that eligible professionals (EPs) can potentially avoid the adjustment next year. The imminent penalty for physicians who don't eprescribe "has created quite a bit of concern about [...]