tci Part B Insider - 2016 Issue 13

Physician Notes: Medicare Advantage Pay to Rise by 0.85 Percent

Plus: Texas physician sentenced to 12 years in prison for Medicare fraud. Looking for a boost in your Medicare Advantage payments? CMS is prepared to oblige, but won’t be offering as much as most practices had previously been hoping. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, CMS will raise Advantage payments by 0.05 percent, although this is a bit lower than CMS’s previous projection, which had the raise projected at 1.35 percent. “The final revenue increase is somewhat smaller than the increase estimated in the February Advance Notice due primarily to technical updates in the risk adjustment...

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