Aug 1, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS
Recently the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released their CCY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) proposed rules. AAHKS’ health policy partners...
Jul 4, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives both passed their Reconciliation Bill that includes a Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) conversion factor (CF) increase of 2.5% for all physicians for 2026. The bill now heads to the President’s desk, where...
Jun 27, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week, AAHKS joined a coalition of 75 national clinician and professional medical organizations to urge U.S. Senate leadership to include Medicare physician payment provisions from the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill (HR 1) in the Senate version. The letter...
Jun 27, 2025 | CMS, Federal Guidelines
This week Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz met with insurance industry leaders to discuss their pledge to ease the burden of prior authorization, which...
Jun 20, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
Physicians can now preview their 2023 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) performance information on Medicare.gov and in the Provider Data Catalog (PDC). Physicians who find errors in their MIPS performance information may file a targeted review by June 25;...
Jun 13, 2025 | Advocacy, CMS, Reimbursement
This week, AAHKS submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year 2026. Our comments included general support for proposed increases to Medicare...
