Remote-Monitoring Code Added, Clinical Lab Fee Payments Set In Medicare Physician Pay Schedule
Executive Summary
US CMS added a telemedicine code, finalized payments for clinical labs, and gave more time for physicians to adapt to its Medicare appropriate-use criteria (AUC) program for advanced diagnostic imaging, as part of its recently released physician fee schedule for 2018.
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