Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Don’t Miss These Fee Schedule Updates
Hint: Telehealth, CCM get a boost in 2020.
Though the E/M coding and payment updates were a top priority in the fee schedule, the feds announced several other important changes for next year. Among them, the 2020 conversion factor — but don’t expect the small boost to bring you a financial windfall any time soon.
Context: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule and its chock full of new codes, policy revisions, payment provisions, and more. The rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on Nov...
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