{"id":9573,"date":"2016-01-15T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/?p=9573"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:36:09","slug":"cms-releases-updated-2016-medicare-physician-fee-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/cms-releases-updated-2016-medicare-physician-fee-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Releases Updated 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMS posted the revised 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule<\/u><\/a> this week. Please note that the new conversion factor is 35.8043 instead of 35.8279 and there was a $0.19 reduction in the anesthesia national conversion factor. SymKey<\/u><\/a>\u00ae<\/sup> can help adjudicate your claims from Jan. 1 forward whether you already processed your Medicare claims and need to reprocess them or if you held those claims and now need to reprice and post them for payment. For more information on how to use SymKey\u00ae<\/sup> to reduce your backlog and ensure a quick turnaround, contact HCIM Product Support at support@hcim.com<\/u><\/a> or complete the contact form located on the sidebar.<\/p>\n

The new fee schedule is dated 1\/5\/16: RVU16A [ZIP, 3MB]<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

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CMS posted the revised 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule this week. Please note that the new conversion factor is 35.8043 instead of 35.8279 and there was a $0.19 reduction in the anesthesia national conversion factor. SymKey\u00ae can help adjudicate your claims from Jan. 1 forward whether you already processed your Medicare claims and need to reprocess them or if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[38,33],"class_list":["post-9573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-blog","category-healthcare-information-management","tag-blog","tag-industry-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16768,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}