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Payment cuts are in the offing for Part B providers in 2023, along with a series of other projected changes targeting E/M services, COVID-related billing flexibilities and value-based care, according to the proposed 2023 Medicare physician fee schedule released today.
 
After legislative reprieve buoyed fees in 2022, CMS again is taking a hack at its primary rate-setting mechanism. The proposed 2023 conversion factor is $33.08, down $1.53, or 4.4%, from the current-year conversion factor of $34.61, according to the 2,066-page proposed rule.
Critical care billing errors can be a bad habit warns Scott Kraft, CPMA, CPC, auditor for DoctorsManagement.
 
Brain illness and injury, with a focus on dementia-related diagnoses, occupy a high volume of the 1,495 proposed changes to the ICD-10-CM code set announced today.
 
As the COVID public health emergency endures, you’ll find a new code that you can report when providing a Moderna booster shot, along with a complementary administration code.
Value-based model watchers may be interested in an outline in the new MedPAC report, required by the Consolidate Appropriations Act of 2021, for a proposed value-based program for a post-acute care value incentive program, aka PAC-VIP.

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