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1/ Let's flip through the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule just out, w shared savings focus
Here's a little trick to get past all the pesky comments (that people spent 1000's of hours developing and submitting), and right to the meat of the matter:
CTRL-F "we are finalizing"
Here's a little trick to get past all the pesky comments (that people spent 1000's of hours developing and submitting), and right to the meat of the matter:
CTRL-F "we are finalizing"
2/ First up: we want to increase participation!
strong evidence for providing upfront capital, especially to rural, underserved, low income ACOs (see AIM)
Good idea to expand it 👍
Lots of comments about eligibility criteria, repayment, etc etc.
"finalized as proposed"
strong evidence for providing upfront capital, especially to rural, underserved, low income ACOs (see AIM)
Good idea to expand it 👍
Lots of comments about eligibility criteria, repayment, etc etc.
"finalized as proposed"
3/ We want to increase participation!
Let's allow folks to stay in one sided risk for longer, especially lower income (no hospital) ACOs
Makes sense 👍
Lots of comments about who, how, when, etc etc
"finalized as proposed without modification"
Let's allow folks to stay in one sided risk for longer, especially lower income (no hospital) ACOs
Makes sense 👍
Lots of comments about who, how, when, etc etc
"finalized as proposed without modification"
What else for a @CMSGov coding and payment geek to do on a Friday night except dig into the 2066 page #PFS proposed rule! @SEricksonACP @BobDohertyACP @RobertBlaser1 @signaturedoc @BetsyNicoletti
Have to start with a shout out to @RobertBlaser1 coding guru from @RPANephrology who has his own thread on the #PFS. It was great to connect with him in Chicago last month
I have to start with a side rant on the conversion factor though. The CF will go down $1.53 to $33.08–a 4.4% decrease! This reflects a statutory freeze on automatic increases to the PFS coupled with the expiration of the some $3b that was pumped into the fee schedule last year
$NWBO DEDUCED RECKONING: Northwest Bio reports Phase 3 results.
#DCVaxL
@joanlappin
finance.yahoo.com/news/deduced-r…
#DCVaxL
@joanlappin
finance.yahoo.com/news/deduced-r…
1/ "Only 5% of glio patients survive for five years. So how stunning is it for DCVAX-L to see life expectancy at 60 months rise from 5.7% to 13%, an increase of 228%. Some patients have seen total remission glio and are cancer free more than a decade after treatment.
2/ For example, Brad Silver participated in the Phase 1 trial 17 years ago and is cancer free now."
OK. I am just now sitting down to look at the proposed #PFS CY 2020, and judging by the summary statement, it looks like @CMSGov accepted all of our RUC/CPT proposals. @BetsyNicoletti @rshawnm @signaturedoc @jakequintonMD @SEricksonACP @yejnes @RobertBlaser1
So this will be an exciting read and a huge boost for primary care and cognitive specialists which will raise reimbursement and at the same time decrease documentation burden for E/M codes.
So first, @CMSGov is proposing to add office based treatment for opioid use disorder to the Medicare Telehealth list (p. 110). This will certainly reduce barriers to treating substance abuse disorders
