CMS Opens PFS Listening Session Registration

Registration is now open for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) listening session. Please note that the PFS proposed rules include expanding telehealth and licensing flexibilities beyond the current public health emergency.

Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Understanding 4 Key Topics Listening Session

Proposed changes to the CY 2021 Physician Fee Schedule are aimed at reducing burden, recognizing clinicians for the time they spend taking care of patients, removing unnecessary measures, and making it easier for clinicians to be on the path towards value-based care. During this listening session, CMS experts briefly cover provisions from the proposed rule and address your clarifying questions to help you formulate your written comments for formal submission: 

1. Extending telehealth and licensing flexibilities beyond the public health emergency
2. Updating Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding guidance
3. Updating the Quality Payment Program/MIPS Value Pathways
4. Updating opioid use disorder/substance use disorder provisions.

When: Thursday, August 13, 2020, 1:30-3:00 pm ET.

Who: Medicare Part B fee-for-service clinicians; office managers and administrators; state and national associations that represent health care providers; and other stakeholders.

Click here to register

CMS encourages you to review the following materials prior to the call:

• CY 2021 Proposed Rule
• CMS press release
• Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule fact sheet
• Quality Payment Program proposed rule fact sheet.

Visit the CMS event page for more information.

Posted 8/6/2020