The Opening Gift: How the Fee Schedule Works (and Why It Feels Like Secret Santa) Imagine the anticipation every fall: CMS, Congress, medical specialty societies, and every practice across the country are prepping for the big reveal—the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for the next year. But this isn’t just opening presents. It’s a carefully […]
When the Calm of Summer Gives Way to Autumn Chaos The easy pace of summer has faded into fall’s familiar rush — lunchboxes packed before dawn, school bells ringing, and inboxes overflowing. For healthcare providers, that same hectic rhythm feels familiar: CMS has announced another delay, extending its hold on telehealth‑related Medicare claims. According to the October 15 MLN Connects Newsletter, CMS directed all Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to continue temporarily
It’s October 2025, and while football fans are glued to unpredictable plays this season, healthcare providers are stuck watching their own kind of gridiron drama — Medicare’s latest “hold everything” game plan. The Play-by-Play CMS has directed Medicare Administrative Contractors to continue holding claims affected by expired payment provisions — that means telehealth, ground ambulance, and FQHC claims are all
Well, folks, here we are—October 2025, and the telehealth roller coaster just took another sharp turn. Congress hit the snooze button, the government is doing its best “out of office” impression, and those cozy pandemic-era telehealth rules officially bid us farewell at midnight on September 30. So, if you were betting on virtual visits being
Not long ago, the idea of checking a patient’s vitals from miles away seemed futuristic. But as healthcare faced the dual pressures of rising chronic disease and aging populations, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) emerged as a powerful solution—turning home devices into daily health checkpoints and transforming how we think about outpatient care. Today, RPM is
CMS Proposed rule and what it means for RPM.
We’ve heard a lot about RPM and the ability to gain significant revenue just by implementing the program in your healthcare organization. In this two-part series we’ll talk about the financial benefits, as well as things to keep in mind in order to effectively implement an RPM program. The financial benefits of implementing remote patient
By: Dr.Chelsia Bhatti The Holiday season of 2020 is going to be like no other holiday time in history that any of us has ever experienced. COVID-19 started many months ago, and unfortunately, we have entered a resurgence of COVID cases across the country recently-and this time it is everywhere, not just in pockets. In
(This article is the culmination of “Implement Telehealth into Your Medical Practice Parts 1 and 2) In the past, the rules and restrictions surrounding the billing of telemedicine visits by Medicare were very tight. Because of the global pandemic that we currently find ourselves in, there has been a loosening of restrictions surrounding this service
(This article is a continuation of “Implement Telehealth into Your Medical Practice Part 1) Getting started with telehealth in your medical practice is not as daunting a task as it may seem. There may be some things to get used to, but once you start implementing it and using it, you will see how it
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