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MPFS Pay:

Blink and Miss Conversion Factor Decline

Published on Thu Apr 07, 2016

Error warrants small adjustment.  If you weren’t paying close attention, you might have missed the recent CMS announcement of a $0.02 adjustment to the 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) conversion factor (CF). That means the multiplier your payers apply to procedure relative value units (RVUs) to come up with your actual pay just got smaller. The CF is now [...]
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