HealthLeaders Media

Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Includes One-Time 2.5% Payment Increase

Healthcare groups including the American Medical Association say Medicare's payment policies for clinicians remain broken. The Physician Fee Schedule final rule released last week features a pair of ...
Healthcare Dive

Medicare finalizes controversial cut to specialty care next year

Medicare has locked in a controversial pay cut for specialty doctors next year, normalizing reimbursement between specialists and primary care doctors and curbing the influence of a powerful physician ...
Healthcare Dive

How to reform Medicare’s physician fee schedule to reprioritize primary care

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...
KTLA

2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rates Set for Scalp Cooling CPT Codes

SAN DIEGO, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooler Heads, a health tech company dedicated to making scalp cooling more accessible and affordable for people undergoing chemotherapy, celebrates a major ...
Business Wire

Elucid Applauds CMS Inclusion of Coronary CTA with Plaque Analysis in 2026 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elucid, an AI medical technology company focused on providing physicians with a more precise view of atherosclerosis to drive patient-specific therapeutic decisions, today ...
mcknightshomecare

2026 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule creates new payment model for chronic disease management

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Monday proposed a 2026 physician payment rule that would create a new payment model focused on improving chronic disease management for beneficiaries ...
Medscape

Medicare Physician Gastrointestinal Procedure Pay Fell; Facility Pay Rose

Medicare payments to physicians for common gastrointestinal procedures have declined in recent years, while reimbursement to ambulatory surgical centers and hospital outpatient departments has ...
AOL

Your Guide to Navigating the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Tool

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) physician fee schedule tool allows healthcare professionals and community-based organizations to find payment information for many Original Medicare ...
AOL

Navigating the Medicare Physician Fee Look-up Tool: A Guide

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides the Physician Fee Schedule tool, which allows healthcare professionals and community-based organizations to find payment information for ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Making Sense of the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Essential Changes & Strategic Impact

Let’s start with the headline figure that’s got everyone talking: The conversion factor dropped to $32.3465 for 2025 from $33.2875 in 2024. This 2.83% reduction might seem modest in isolation, but ...
Daily Herald

Cost-effective Medicare

I would like to advocate for HR 879, a bill proposed to put an end to the year-over-year Medicare fee schedule cuts for physical therapists and potentially provide an increase for the rest of 2025.