CMS Updates:
3 Updates Keep You Ahead of the Pack on MPFS, MRI, and ABN Changes
Published on Thu Aug 04, 2011
Don't miss the proposal to expand the MPPR from technical to professional payment.As if imaging practices didn't get enough bad news in 2011, CMS's payment proposals for 2012 indicate the situation could get even worse. Check out the proposed fee schedule changes, as well as news for MRI and Advance Beneficiary Notices (ABNs).1. Focus on Potential Imaging Fee CutsOn July 1, CMS released its proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2012. The 621-page document, published in the July 19 Federal Register, offers a look into how the agency configures its relative value unit (RVU) assignments.Imaging pay, hit hard over the last several years, will see further cuts if the proposed rule is finalized. Currently, when you perform multiple radiological procedures on the Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) list during a single session, Medicare reduces the technical component of the lower paid procedure(s) by 50 percent.But CMS wants to further [...]