🚨 Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Reform Stuck in Congress 🚨 The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2024, a bipartisan bill aimed at increasing transparency and expediting prior authorization in Medicare Advantage, has broad support from lawmakers and healthcare leaders—but its future remains uncertain. With 228 sponsors in the House and 59 in the Senate, this popular measure has the numbers to pass. However, it faces tough competition in a crowded legislative agenda, with Congress focusing on expiring healthcare programs like telehealth extensions and physician pay adjustments. What’s at stake? Patients and Providers: Streamlined prior authorization could reduce delays and administrative burdens, ensuring timely care for seniors. Efficiency Gains: Mandating faster decisions (72 hours for urgent cases, 7 days for non-urgent). While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced similar rules for 2026, this legislation could codify these protections sooner, addressing ongoing frustrations in healthcare delivery. 🩺✨ #MedicareAdvantage #PriorAuthorization
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🚨 Attention Healthcare Professionals! 🚨 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed rule for the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), and it includes a 2.93% average payment rate reduction for physicians. This marks the fifth consecutive year of reduced reimbursement, despite CMS's commitment to advancing health equity and supporting whole-person care. 🔍 Key Points to Consider: - 2.93% Payment Cut: A significant reduction impacting physicians nationwide. - Rising Costs: The Medicare Economic Index (MEI) is projected to increase by 3.6%, widening the gap between payment rates and practice costs. - Long-term Impact: Physicians have faced a 29% decline in Medicare payments since 2001, adjusted for inflation. The American Medical Association (AMA) warns that these repeated cuts threaten patient access to care. It's crucial to address this unsustainable trend to ensure that healthcare providers can continue delivering quality care to patients. 💡 What Can You Do? - Stay informed about these changes and their potential impact on your practice. - Engage with professional organizations and advocacy groups to voice your concerns. - Explore innovative solutions to optimize practice management and efficiency. Together, we can advocate for a more sustainable and equitable healthcare system. Let’s stay connected and support each other in navigating these challenging times. #MEDSCoders #Healthcare #Medicare #PhysicianFeeSchedule #CMS #HealthEquity #PatientCare #MedicalBilling #MedicalCoding #PracticeManagement #Advocacy
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Here are good policy priorities for fixing physician payment: "First, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should correct misvalued services and establish a hybrid payment for primary care that blends fee-for-service and population-based payment. Second, Congress should alter the thirty-five-year-old statutory basis for setting Medicare fees to allow CMS to explicitly consider policy priorities such as workforce shortages in refining fee levels." https://lnkd.in/eD3ywMk5
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Get the Fact Sheet - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), releases proposed new policies for calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The proposed rule aims to advance health equity and support whole-person care with several specific sections pertaining to FQHC, and RHC. #CMS #2025MedicareFeeSchedule #2025PhysicianFeeSchedule #2025ProposedRule #Medicare #FQHC #RHC
CMS Announces Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule | Vigilance Health, Inc.
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It is critical that all providers get on board with advocating for reimbursement.
Congress Passes 1.68% Physician Fee Schedule Provider Relief Congress has agreed to a 1.68% increase to the physician fee schedule beginning this week. This is some good news for providers, but it still doesn’t close the gap on the 3.37% cut initiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last fall which went into effect on January 1, 2024. The most recent 3.37% cut is just one of a series of cuts that Medicare B providers have faced, totalling nearly 10% over the last 4 years. Industry underfunding has serious implications for seniors and providers, including access to care, inability to cover rising practice costs and growing staffing shortages. #Healthcareadvocacy is needed now more than ever! Healthcare advocates and providers need to ask Congress to: 1) Provide for a temporary exemption to the 15% therapy assistant differential for providers treating Medicare beneficiaries in rural and/or medically underserved areas. 2) Remove mechanisms that annually create significant unpredictable reductions in pay so that providers receive payment that covers the cost of care now and in the years to come. Advocating takes only a minute using this prepopulated template. Email your congress member. Take an additional minute to personalize your message and make an even bigger impact! https://p2a.co/TMQNLAZ #Regulatory #PowerbackRehab
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set to take effect on January 1, 2025. These changes to Medicare Part B payments reflect broader goals of improving accessibility, affordability, and quality in healthcare. Staying ahead of these updates is crucial for making informed decisions for your practice or business. Are you ready to adapt to these changes? #Healthcare #Medicare #PhysicianFeeSchedule
Understanding the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule | Carr, Riggs & Ingram
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Dr. Mehmet Oz's recent nomination as the Administrator of #CMS has ignited widespread discussion across the healthcare community. In our latest blog, we dive into the potential ripple effects of this appointment on the future of #MedicareAdvantage and #Medicaid. Key topics covered include: ➡️ Anticipated policy shifts under his leadership ➡️ The future of value-based care initiatives ➡️ Implications for health plans, providers, and patient care Read more: https://shorturl.at/0oGIm
Dr. Mehmet Oz's Nomination as CMS Administrator: What It Means for the Future of Medicare and Medicaid
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Without Congressional action to extend current Medicare telehealth flexibilities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may need to establish Medicare payment policies (including for telehealth) for calendar year (CY) 2025 under the assumption these flexibilities will not exist. This is evident in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, which was released just over a month ago. This uncertainty around Medicare telehealth flexibilities is already creating issues for providers and patients. PAVC and other stakeholders recently sent a letter to House and Senate leadership, urging quick action on legislation to extend current Medicare telehealth flexibilities, in light of the fast-approaching year-end deadline. Read the full letter here: https://lnkd.in/eS4Qu6Mp #Telehealth #VirtualCare #Medicare #HealthPolicy
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set to take effect on January 1, 2025. These changes to Medicare Part B payments reflect broader goals of improving accessibility, affordability, and quality in healthcare. Staying ahead of these updates is crucial for making informed decisions for your practice or business. Are you ready to adapt to these changes? #Healthcare #Medicare #PhysicianFeeSchedule
Understanding the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule | Carr, Riggs & Ingram
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, set to take effect on January 1, 2025. These changes to Medicare Part B payments reflect broader goals of improving accessibility, affordability, and quality in healthcare. Staying ahead of these updates is crucial for making informed decisions for your practice or business. Are you ready to adapt to these changes? #Healthcare #Medicare #PhysicianFeeSchedule
Understanding the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule | Carr, Riggs & Ingram
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Hot off the press 📣 A thought-provoking piece by Bob Berenson & Kevin Hayes which argues policymakers need to modernize the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, with a particular focus on bolstering primary care, if we're going to succeed on the road to value-based care. "The focus on Alternative Payment Models (APMs) paradoxically has diverted attention from the long-standing need to improve the fee schedule. Congress should consider investing the political and monetary capital needed to modernize the fee schedule to support value-based care delivery. Without such investment and modernization, the fee schedule will continue to work at cross-purposes with APMs aimed at increasing quality, controlling costs, and improving patient and practitioner experience." #valuebasedcare #valuebasedpayment #primarycare
The Road To Value Can’t Be Paved With A Broken Medicare Physician Fee Schedule | Health Affairs Journal
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