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Physicians are facing a 10.2% drop in the Medicare conversion factor (CF) starting Jan. 1, as an offset to broad new increases in reimbursement rates for E/M office visits and other E/M-like services, according to the final 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule released Dec. 1.
 
Everyone’s favorite office procedure, cerumen removal using lavage (69209) made a cameo appearance during the E/M office visit coding presentation during the AMA’s virtual CPT RBRVS Symposium this week.
 
The 2021 fee outlook emerged as a key point of discussion at the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual conference, with officials from the AMA and CMS offering divergent signals on what the scope of payment change may look like come Jan. 1.
 
 
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While the world waits on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, a CPT code update containing a suite of six vaccine product and administration codes offers reason to ready your claims reporting systems.
 
 

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