DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 5 (May)

Health reform drops conversion factor to $36.0791, alters PE payments

You'll be paid slightly less for your services for the remainder of 2010 because CMS reduced the conversion factor used to calculate your payments by half a penny as a result of several updates to the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. These updates include practice expense geographic price cost index (PE-GPCI) changes affecting practices in low-cost areas called for in the new health care reform law (PBN 4/12/10).

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