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Reimbursement Update:

CMS Boosts Your Pay – Slightly – With 2019 Conversion Factors

Published on Mon Jan 14, 2019

The anesthesia starting point will be $22.2730. Anesthesia providers will see an uptick in their Medicare reimbursement in 2019, thanks to a small boost to both the National Conversion Factor (NCF) and the Anesthesia Conversion Factor (ACF). Bottom line: The National Medicare Conversion Factor (for non-anesthesia services) will show a few-cents increase for inflation: from approximately $35.99 in 2018 to [...]
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