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07/20/2026
Rumblings from CMS suggest that the agency and its associates plan to make greater use of artificial intelligence (AI) fraud-catching tools in days to come. Experts say you can look at the way AI parses data to prepare for audits that are informed by it.
07/20/2026
Remind staff that they can’t assume a commercial payer’s incident-to policies will match Medicare’s. The latest examples come from Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in North Carolina and Michigan.
07/20/2026
Two major medical practice organizations, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), recently released survey results on provider compensation data. Both see compensation rising, but slowly and unevenly, and generally agree that it doesn’t track with physician productivity, which by some measures can be said to have decreased.
07/20/2026
Brace for impact: CMS announced a reduction to physician fees for CY 2027 that would, in aggregate, lower payments across the board. The conversion factor (CF), one of CMS’ primary ratesetting mechanisms, would drop between 1% and 2% depending on the professional fee setting.
07/20/2026
Medical groups took a slow embrace of caregiver training services (CTS) after CMS rolled out three codes eligible for Medicare billing in 2024. But practices still cleared more than half of a million dollars in payments for the codes, hinting at greater potential ahead.

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