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Congress Urged Not to Implement Medicare Payment Cuts
The American Medical Association and every state medical society have authored a letter to Congress urgently requesting them to intervene before the new Medicare payment cuts take effect in 2023. Congress has until January 1, 2023, to stop these cuts. The organizations’ letter highlights the challenges the healthcare sector is now experiencing. Hospitals and…
Read MoreSome Congressional Members Call for Potential Fee Change for Radiologists
A bipartisan group of 61 members of Congress is calling for a review of a change in the Medicare fee schedule that impacts medical practices, including radiology, who will see ‘clinical labor’ cuts. Late last year and for the first time in almost 20 years, CMS updated its clinical labor rates that are used to…
Read MoreCongress Rescinds 10% Medicare Cuts for 2022
2022 Medicare physician billing rates are now finalized after Congress disallowed most of the proposed 9.75% CMS cuts. The “Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act” passed both Houses last week and was signed by President Biden. This act provides the following relief. Delays the 4% cut for the PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) provision until…
Read MoreASTRO Asks Congress to Delay New CMS Model by Six Months for the Sake of Suffering Clinics
CMS recently unveiled a new payment model for radiation therapy for cancer patients that is set to launch Jan. 1 and expected to save Medicare $230 million over five years. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services first finalized the model on September 18, creating a bundle-payment system during a 90-day episode of care with…
Read MoreRadiologists, It’s Time to Call Your Member in Congress!
Your government is here to help. Under the guise of “Patients over Paperwork,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed a $5 billion boost to funding for reimbursement for care-related evaluation and management (E/M). Unfortunately the latest government effort to ease administration burdens on physicians will cost radiologists $450 million in one year…
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