CMS Releases 2011 Conversion Factor Rate

Posted on 28. Dec, 2010 by jennifer.godreau.

Despite adjusted rate of 33.9764, overall change is zero.

The President locked in a zero percent adjustment to your Medicare Part B payments but that doesn’t mean you’ve got the same rate.

The Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010, which was signed into law on Dec. 15, established a payment update for 2011 of zero percent. To cover the cost of the provision, Medicare had to modify a physical therapy provision that was in the proposed 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule. “In addition, the final rule made other changes to the conversion factor, including a re-weighting of the work, practice expense and liability expense components of the relative value scale that resulted in a reduction in the numerical value of the conversion factor, even though

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