Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - February 26, 2010
February 26, 2010, 4:21 PM
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
(CMS) is working with Congress, health care providers, and the
beneficiary
community to avoid disruption in the delivery of health care services
and
payment of claims for physicians, non-physician practitioners, and other
providers of services paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule
(MPFS). The Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 provided a
zero percent (0%) update to the 2010 MPFS effective for dates of service
January 1, 2010, through February 28, 2010.
We believe Congress is working to avoid the
negative
update that will take effect March 1, 2010. Consequently, CMS has
instructed its contractors to hold claims containing services paid under
the
MPFS for the first 10 business days of March. The holding of MPFS claims
will
only affect claims with dates of service March 1, 2010, and forward.
This
hold should have a minimum impact on provider cash flow because, under
current
law, clean electronic claims are not paid any sooner than 14 calendar
days (29
for paper claims) after the date of receipt.
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