Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Part B Payment:

Final 2014 Fee Schedule Slashes Not as Steep as Proposed

Make congressional intervention your New Year’s wish. The Final 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule brings gloomy news — the conversion factor will be steeply slashed by 20.1 percent. But the Final Rule, published in the Federal Register on Dec. 10, offers a mild reprieve for physicians. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) notes in the Final Rule that [...]
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