CMS posted its fact sheet for the Value-Based Payment Modifier Program for 2016. The value modifier was applied to physician payments beginning January 2015 under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ...
CMS has established a new payment modifier — PD Diagnostic or related nondiagnostic item or service provided in a wholly owned or operated entity to a patient admitted as an inpatient within 3 days, ...
The American Medical Association has voiced concern regarding penalties within CMS' Value-Based Payment Modifier program. CMS announced Feb. 27 that one-third of physicians may face penalties. The ...
Practices that had more than 200 clinicians and that had higher meaningful use of health information technology (IT) were more engaged in reporting quality data and performed at a higher level on ...
Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...
Physician organizations were mostly thrilled when Congress passed the “doc fix” legislation in April, replacing the despised Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate with the Merit-based Incentive Payment ...