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In the days after CMS dropped a bombshell of a proposed fee schedule, experts and industry groups continue to make sense of the expected aftermath. No proposals are final, of course, but the ideas floated -- around E/M payments and documentation, in particular -- could prove significantly disruptive to physician practices around the country.
You could find a single payment amount for your level 2 to 5 office codes and significantly reduced documentation requirements as soon as Jan. 1 should changes put forth in the 2019 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule come to realization.
Payment adjustments for the first year of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) are scheduled to arrive soon, so now may be the time to brush up on any unanswered questions you have about your payment-affecting scores from the 2017 reporting year.

A sinus tarsi foot implant designed to correct gait; extracorporeal shockwave wound care treatment; and a wireless cardiac stimulator for biventricular pacing are some of the new CPT Category III codes released by the AMA July 1 that will be available for reporting in January.

You may know CMS made a mistake on your final MIPS score for 2017, but if you can't prove it, you're out of luck.

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