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Had you forgotten about the new patient relationship category modifiers unveiled in the 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule? CMS hasn't. The five new modifiers are still out there and still voluntary. But expect Medicare to shift to mandatory reporting of the modifiers soon as part of the cost portion of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).
 
The good news: You may be due for additional reimbursement retroactive to Jan. 1. The merely OK news: You’ll have to check your claims and ask your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) for an adjustment. The not great but could be worse news: You may owe your MAC money on some claims, but it’s just a few cents per claim.
The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) wrapped up in 2018 when Medicare issued payment adjustments for the 2016 reporting year. And soon the PQRS website will be a thing of the past.

Samant Virk, M.D., founder & CEO of MediSprout, a healthcare and telehealth solutions company in Valhalla, N.Y., tells Part B News what he knows about Medicare's newly-covered codes for interprofessional consultations performed via communications technology (99446-99452) and other developments in remote medicine. 

When we reported in January that you had till April 2 to report Quality Payment Program data to CMS, you may have thought you had plenty of time to think about that later -- but here's a reminder that it's now less than a month away. 

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