This is part three of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeated that not enough childhood vaccines have been tested in clinical trials against a placebo.

The CMS finalized cuts to the 2025 physician fee schedule for the fifth year in a row, prompting an urgent call-to-action from the American Academy of Dermatology. HHS, through the CMS, announced ...

If enacted, it would provide a 4.73% payment boost to the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule's conversion factor.

Now, with the recent release of the Centers for Medicare & Centers for Medicaid Services 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, some of these priorities are being adopted to better ...

The proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) would cut physician reimbursement by 2.8%, and now a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging Congress to pass legislation to block the cut.

On July 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the CY2025 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. Key highlights included standard updates to ...

Get ready for a shake-up! The 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule has dropped, bringing with it crucial changes that every therapist needs to know. From payment rates to ...

Conversion Factor (CF) Reduction: CMS proposes a 2025 CF of $32.3562, representing a 2.8% reduction from the 2024 physician CF of $33.2875, and a 2025 anesthesia CF of $20.3340, representing a 2.1 ...

On July 10, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through CMS, unveiled the proposed rule for the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule. 1 The rule includes a 2.8% reduction in the ...

Under the proposal, the conversion factor used to determine physician reimbursement rates for treating Medicare beneficiaries would decrease from $33.29 this year to $32.36 in 2025.