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  • The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: An Overview

    The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) is a payment system used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reimburse healthcare providers for their services. The PFS is used to determine the amount of money that Medicare will pay for each service that a provider delivers to a Medicare beneficiary. The PFS is…

  • Medicare: A Basic Overview

    Medicare: A Basic Overview

    Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States that provides coverage to people who are 65 years or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant). In this article, we will explore how Medicare works and what it covers. How Medicare…

  • Medicare RPM Policy

    Medicare RPM Policy

    Remote-Patient Monitoring Policy Overview By: Robert Longyear In the 2018/2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule to allow for reimbursement for remote-physiological monitoring, also known as remote patient monitoring (RPM). RPM involves the transmission of patient-level data from the patient, in a variety of settings…