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2020 Medicare Pay:

Learn MPFS Final Rule Impact for Your Pathology Lab

Published on Tue Dec 10, 2019

Pap interpretation takes big hit. Changes are coming down the pike for payment on some high-volume pathology services beginning in January, according to the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule. Background: The reason for many 2020 MPFS changes is to “[free] up clinicians to focus on their patients rather than on paperwork,” says HHS Secretary Alex Azar in [...]
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