Nixon Gwilt Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On November 2, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“2024 MPFS”) final rule. CMS received over 20,000 comments on the proposed rule , which was published in July. RTM and RPM, from Proposed to Final Rule: What Changed?

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Nixon Gwilt Law

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes new CPT codes to facilitate reimbursement for healthcare providers who help patients overcome social and environmental health barriers.

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Nixon Gwilt Law

JULY 20, 2023

Now, in the first proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (“MPFS”) since the PHE ended, CMS is clearing up some lingering unanswered questions, with a particular focus on flexibilities established in the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (“2023 CAA”). The 2023 CAA further extended these flexibilities through the end of 2024.

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Nixon Gwilt Law

JULY 14, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released its much-anticipated Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for CY 2024 (the “Proposed Rule”) on July 13, 2023. RPM and RTM may NOT be billed for the same patient – or can they??

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Nixon Gwilt Law

JULY 11, 2022

Every summer when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) releases the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”), the Nixon Gwilt Law (“NGL”) team excitedly opens the two-thousand-something-page PDF and immediately keys “ctrl+F” (or command+F for us Mac users) to jump to our most anticipated section(s).

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Nixon Gwilt Law

AUGUST 2, 2022

Specifically, the Proposed Rule would add several services to the Medicare Telehealth List (most on a temporary basis through the end of 2023) and adjust the use of modifiers when submitting telehealth claims following the end of the PHE. CMS proposed to add the following 53 services to the List on a Category 3 basis.

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Nixon Gwilt Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But first, a brief reminder of how we got where we are today: In early July, CMS released its Proposed 2023 MPFS, which included changes to payment policy for RTM services aimed at addressing some of the concerns posed by the existing CPT Code set as established by the American Medical Association’s CPT Committee. ” — CMS.

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