On November 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule. Medicare payments to physicians will be reduced by 2.93% in 2025 compared to the current payment rate, in place since the spring of 2024 when Congress stepped in to stabilize rates....
For the first time in over a decade, substantive changes have been made to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy became effective on June 25, 2024. Although the compliance deadlines for this new rule are months (or longer) away, providers should...
Increased mental health concerns among health professionals was deemed a public health crisis even before the pandemic; post-COVID conditions have intensified longstanding challenges and contributed to worsening problems, including compassion fatigue, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and suicidal...
The results of an American Medical Association survey in the aftermath of the February 21 Change Healthcare cybersecurity attack demonstrate the continuation of challenges, despite parent company United Healthcare's declaration that the situation has been resolved. The April 29, 2024 AMA survey reve...
For providers who are required to participate in the federal government's Quality Payment Program, the exemption application is open for the 2023 reporting year. The government is allowing COVID-19 to be the basis for the exemption. Why bother? If you are required to participate in the program based on y...
On July 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the annual proposal for Medicare reimbursement for the coming year. In the absence of Congressional intervention, the payment rate for physicians will decline by 4.4% in 2023 based on the proposed conversion factor of $33.08, a decrease of $...
Two years of activity on the Tennessee Professional Screening Questionnaire (TN-PSQ) have shown the online mental health screening tool is helping to address the “parallel pandemic” affecting Tennessee health professionals in the era of COVID. This is according to TMF Health Quality Institute lea...
Physicians and advanced practice providers managing chronic pain should be aware of the changes to the Tennessee Chronic Pain Guidelines which are posted on the licensing board websites. For ease of identifying the changes, a copy of the guidelines is available on SVMIC’s website (www.svmic.com). Notabl...
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