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Proposed 2014 Fee Schedule Suggests Steep Cuts

Published on Thu Aug 22, 2013

But in 2015, practitioners could finally see bonuses for non-face-to-face services administered to patients with chronic problems. You’ll find good news and bad news in the proposed 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The bad news is that the agency will be making across-the-board payment cuts via the conversion factor in addition to cuts that will impact labs and pathologists specifically. [...]
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