On April 15, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed a measure to permanently reform the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) for Part B physician payment. The measure, the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2), reforms th...

• PQRS was originally known as PQRI. Since 2010 providers could bill codes to Medicare to indicate that they had performed quality measures specific to their specialty during patient encounters.

• Providers that didn't provide qualifying data in 2013 are penalized...

...for Chronic Care Management Outside of Office Visits.

Previously we talked about a new program offered by CMS which provides additional revenue to Primary Care Physicians. The new code is included in the CMS fee schedule published November 13. The program will pay...

So you*ve you heard of Tax Code 179 . . . but how do you really use it? 

* To reduce taxes practices either reduce revenues or increase expenses 

* It is unlikely that practices want to reduce revenues* So increasing expenses is the logical               option...