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Final Fee Schedule Confirms Phasing Out of Global Periods

Published on Mon Dec 15, 2014

Ophthalmology practices, prepare for a 2 percent cut to Medicare payments. When CMS announced on Halloween that it had published the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule Final rule, many practices were a bit spooked to review it — but fortunately, the finalized version of the document doesn’t differ too wildly from the proposal that the agency published earlier this year. Read [...]
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