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The COVID-19 federal public health emergency (PHE) declaration, which has been renewed 11 times since initially enacted in January of 2020, has been renewed once again as of January 11, 2023. Bot...

https://advocatercm.com/covid-phe-extended-into-april-2023/

The President has signed a $1.7 trillion year-end spending (omnibus) bill that includes several changes to federal healthcare policy for the upcoming fiscal year. The bill includes several provis...

https://advocatercm.com/omnibus-bill-mitigates-some-of-the-2023-medicare-physician-reimbursement-cuts/

The CPT coding changes have been released.  Understanding the new codes is crucial to obtaining the proper reimbursement for your services. ADVOCATE has analyzed CPT changes for this upcoming ye...

https://advocatercm.com/cpt-2023-changes/

On November 1st, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for next calendar year. In the new fee schedule, the agency is finali...

https://advocatercm.com/cms-finalizes-2023-medicare-physician-fee-schedule/

The COVID-19 federal public health emergency (PHE) declaration has been renewed as of October 13th, 2022. Since the PHE is renewed in 90-day increments, this extension will preserve the declarati...

https://advocatercm.com/covid-phe-renewed-into-2023/

In August, the department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a third final rule related to the independent dispute resolution process required by the No Surprises Act (NSA). The passage of...

https://advocatercm.com/third-final-rule-issued-for-the-no-surprises-act/

Replacing the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2017, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment Program (MIPs) aims to incentivize providers for delivering high-value care to patients. Provide...

https://advocatercm.com/avoiding-mips-penalties-increasingly-difficult/

The COVID-19 federal public health emergency (PHE) declaration, most recently renewed on July 15th 2022, could be extended into 2023 based on the latest actions from the department of Health and ...

https://advocatercm.com/covid-phe-signaled-to-continue-into-2023/

On July 7th, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for next calendar year, while simultaneously announcing the indefinite...

https://advocatercm.com/cms-releases-2023-medicare-physician-fee-schedule-proposed-rule/

Published: 6/30/22 Medicare Sequester Cuts Medicare sequestration cuts will fully resume on July 1st, 2022. This budget control mechanism has been temporarily suspended during the majority of the...

https://advocatercm.com/reminder-medicare-sequester-cut-fully-resumes-next-prf-reporting-opens-july-1st/