CMS Releases Proposed 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the proposed 2017 Medicare physician payment rule. According to CMS, the new payment rule will transform how Medicare pays for primary care through a new focus on care management and behavioral health. The proposed rule also begins to implement the California Geographic Practice Cost Index (GPCI) fix, which will overhaul California’s outdated geographic payment localities. This long-overdue fix updating California’s Medicare physician payment regions will raise payment levels for 14 urban California counties misclassified as rural, while holding the remaining ... July 25, 2016 General, Medicare 2017 Medicare physician payment rule , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 0 0 Comment Read More »
