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Special Report: Medicare’s final 2027 fee schedule cuts deeper than proposed, with Taya Gordon of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting
Medicare’s final 2027 physician fee schedule, released Nov. 4, cuts the conversion factor 2.31% for most clinicians starting Jan. 1, a deeper cut than CMS proposed in July. When an office visit billed with modifier -25 falls on the same day as a 0-day global procedure, Medicare will pay the lower-paid service at 80%, not the 50% CMS had proposed.
Physicians Practice Managing Editor Keith Reynolds sat down with Shawntea “Taya” Gordon, MBA, FACMPE, CEO of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, the morning after the final rule came out to get her first read.
Gordon says the scaled-back modifier…
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