New Year Brings Significant Changes to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for Calendar Year 2021 (the Final Rule) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 1, 2020, and published in the Federal Register on December 28, 2020, made significant and far-reaching changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). In the Final Rule, which went into effect on January 1, 2021, CMS implemented changes to streamline the reporting process for office and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M)...
By: Bass, Berry & Sims PLC