Better late than never: Stimulus bill salves pain of conversion factor cut, also delays G2211

E/M Coding & Auditing, Grant Huang, News & Events, Payer Rules

January 7, 2021 | By Grant Huang, CPC, CPMA The 2021 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) had included the largest one-year reduction to the Medicare conversion factor (CF) in more than 20 years, but it won’t actually take effect because the CF is being increased as a result of provisions in the recently passed stimulus legislation.…

Changes to Stark May Require Tweaks to the Physician Compensation Formula

David Glaser, Legislative Action, Payer Rules

  January 8, 2021 | By David Glaser In early December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new rules that dramatically revise the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly called the “Stark law” after Pete Stark, the Congressman credited with introducing it. While many of the changes loosen the law’s restrictions, focused particularly on…