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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule :

Get These Updates to Global Surgical Package and Incident- To Billing

Published on Mon Dec 14, 2015

Fees and compliance issues lead providers’ concerns. First, the good news — baseline Medicare payments will increase by 0.5 percent in 2016. For the first time in years, your surgery practice isn’t facing an end-of-the year panic about possible double-digit payment reductions due to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula. The change is thanks to the Medicare Access and CHIP [...]
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