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MPFS Final Rule:

See How Medicare Pay 2021 Impacts Your Lab

Published on Fri Jan 15, 2021

Expect conversion factor hardship. CMS released the final 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and it’s chock full of items that will impact your lab or pathology practice’s bottom line in the coming year. Topping the list is the final rule’s 2021 conversion factor (CF) of $32.41, a decrease of 10.2 percent from the 2020 CF of $36.09. The move [...]
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