IPSIS Opposes Multiple Proposed Radical Revisions to Medicare Payment Policies

IPSIS has once again rallied multiple medical associations in opposition to proposed payment policies that threaten to impede access to care for Americans suffering from spine pathologies. On October 5, 2020, IPSIS sent a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strongly urging them to abandon a proposed prior authorization requirement for neurostimulation procedures.

IPSIS also issued a comment letter 🔒 on October 2, 2020, addressing several regulations proposed in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule:

• The imposition of a draconian 11% Conversion Factor reduction
• Premature changes to office visit E/M codes prior to an analysis of the impact of these coding changes
• Refusal to incorporate any potential E/M increases into codes with global surgical packages that include E/M office visits
• Failing to ease barriers to the expansion of telehealth for beneficial services likely needed through December 2023 to address COVID-19 pandemic recovery
• Ill-advised scope of practice expansions that are likely to result in substandard and potentially unsafe care

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