Society Urges HHS to Waive Budget Neutrality for Medicare E&M Visits

Last week, the Society joined the American Medical Association and other national medical organizations in urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the office visit increases and waive the requirement for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to adjust Medicare physician payments for budget neutrality when it implements the office visit coding and payment changes that it has finalized for 2021.

The groups noted that “Payment reductions of this magnitude would be a major problem at any time, but to impose cuts of this magnitude during or immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic, including steep cuts to many of the specialties that have been on the front lines in efforts to treat patients in places with widespread infection, is unconscionable.”

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