Physicians Brace For Pay Cut, Possible MIPS Performance Threshold Hike & Reporting Changes In Proposed 2025 Fee Schedule

The draft Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), anticipated to include another pay cut that physicians will ask Congress to address by the end of the year, has cleared the White House Office of Management and Budget and could be released at any time. CMS is also expected to propose a higher performance threshold for clinicians to avoid monetary penalties, introduce alternate reporting options and refine existing ones, improve some of the Cost and Quality measures, and modify the exemption criteria...