The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and more than 40 other medical specialty societies signed on to a letter urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) not to move forward with the changes to split or shared visits, as finalized in [...]

The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) Coordination and Maintenance Committee is seeking comments on proposed ICD-10 codes. The committee is a federal interdepartmental committee, which allows the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [...]

On March 28, President Joe Biden released his 2023 proposed budget for the U.S. government. The $5.8 trillion budget proposes $127.3 billion in discretionary spending and another $1.7 trillion in mandatory spending for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The budget requests [...]

The Medicare sequestration cuts, rolled back at the beginning of the year by Congress to offset a potentially devastating reduction in physician payments, will be phased back in beginning April 1. Despite efforts by the physician community and other stakeholders to lobby Congress to [...]

The American Medical Association (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel recently approved a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) modifier for “Synchronous Telemedicine Service Rendered Via Telephone or Other Real-Time Interactive Audio-Only Telecommunications System.” Modifier 93 should be reported to describe real-time telemedicine services between a patient [...]

In November the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized proposals and outlined its plans to completely restructure the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program. This comes as no surprise, as CMS introduced the concept of MIPS Value Pathways through the rulemaking process [...]