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The Dec. 18 issue of Part B News covers a recent retaliation judgment against a medical practice on behalf of an employee who charged discrimination, and how an accessible reporting protocol can help avoid such a result in your practice. A health care attorney weighs in with further thoughts. 
 
CMS reverses course and creates frequency limits for prolonged service codes G0316-G0318.
 
CMS has not released a final national coverage determination (NCD) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). And CMS did not discuss the service in the physician fee schedule final rule. But practices and clinics can find previews of the service in the 2024 HCPCS update, the relative value units (RVU) file for the 2024 Medicare and appendix B of proposed decision memo CAG-00464N.
 
The conversion factor cuts that CMS floated earlier in the year are now confirmed – and heightened. Part B providers will have to prepare for a net 3.4% payment decrease across services in 2024, according to the final 2024 Medicare physician fee schedule released today.
 
Also, you will find new services moving to active status, such as caregiver training and principal illness navigation, a one-year telehealth parity patch, key value-based care updates and the launch of the much anticipated add-on complexity code G2211.
 
 
Take a glimpse at the hundreds of CPT coding updates coming in 2024 to prepare your coding and billing staff for a successful turn of the calendar. You’ll find new codes, as well as code revisions, spread throughout the CPT manual, in addition to important guideline updates.
 
Also, nearly 50 codes are on the chopping block. All coding updates, outside of a separately announced COVID vaccine consolidation that takes effect Nov. 1, 2023, will be effective Jan. 1, 2024.
 

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