Medicare Fee Schedules Show Cuts To Physician Services

US Medicare payments for services provided in physician offices will fall by nearly 4% in calendar 2022; elsewhere, the agency granted pass-through payments to three devices and maintained additional telehealth services.

Dollar bill cut in many pieces.

Medicare’s final 2022 payment schedules for physician and outpatient services dropped on 2 November alongside an update to the year’s home health prospective payment system, boosting telehealth and home health agencies while cutting rates for services provided in a doctor’s office.

Specifically, rates for some diagnostic tests and other services provided in a physician’s office will fall under the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) due to the expiration of 2021’s 3

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