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CMS Publishes 2014 Medicare Fee Schedule

From CMA's December 16, 2013, CMA Alert On November 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 1,369-page 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, which was published in the December 10 Federal Register. Most provisions take effect January 1, 2014, although a few issues are open for public comment by January 27, 2014. The American Medical Association (AMA) has published a summary of the final rule. Below are a few key points: Although the final rule contains the 23.7 percent physician payment cut ...

New Workers' Compensation RBRVS Physician Fee Schedule Effective January 1, 2014

From CMA's December 16, 2013, CMA Alert As part of the reforms instituted by SB 863, the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will begin utilizing a new fee schedule based on the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) effective January 1, 2014. The new RBRVS-based physician fee schedule will apply to services rendered on or after January 1, 2014, and will replace the current Official Medical Fee Schedule, which has not been updated to reflect new procedure codes and relative value units (RVU) since 1999. This newly adopted physician fee schedule will ...