Doctors could get a small decline in their Medicare payments next year under a new rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which is also proposing new options to cover ...

Physician pay hasn’t kept up with the costs of providing care, pushing independent practices to sell to health systems and ...

Organizations that have not already transitioned to using wRVUs from the current Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) should plan to make the switch sooner rather than later. Due to the complexity ...

Fixes are harder to come by, although pay increases based on inflation are popular ...

CMS released its 2025 physician payment rule, which includes a 94 cent (2.83%) conversion factor decrease from 2024. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 ...

Providers are slamming the Biden administration’s proposal to cut reimbursements for procedure codes that cover oncology, hematology and other infusion services. Some groups are pressing the Centers ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, updating payment rates, adding new telehealth services, and revising practice expense ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on July 14. The agency’s announcement emphasized “significantly cutting spending waste, ...

This is part one of a three-part article on policy issues in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The topics covered include: the role a technical expert panel could play in modernizing the fee ...

Medicare payment to physicians will be changing in 2026, and those providers who fail to adopt the change will leave money behind. The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a 2.5% payment ...