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2011 Fee Schedule:

Will CMS Slash 2011 Conversion Factor 30 Percent Versus Current Rates?

Published on Sat Nov 06, 2010

Plus: Radiology RVUs could see 10 percent drop.Another season of nail-biting is under way, waiting to find out whether your Medicare payments will be slashed. As most practices know, last June Congress voted not only to stave off a 21 percent cut to your Medicare pay, but also to increase your revenue by 2.2 percent. However, that vote only kept the cuts at bay through November 30. Effective December 1, your Medicare pay was set to drop by over 23 percent, unless Congress intervened to reverse the cuts.As of publication time, the Senate and House had passed a measure to delay Medicare's 23 percent cut to the fee schedule conversion factor due to take effect Dec. 1. The delay pushes the cut until Dec. 31. The President was expected to sign the bill into law.Still looming is a possible cut to 2011 payments starting January 1. There are rumblings [...]
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