Medicare Changes for 2025 Set
Under its 2025 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that physicians will be paid, on average, nearly 3% less next year compared with 2024 reimbursement rates. The PFS is the primary method the CMS uses to pay healthcare providers; it relies on a conversion factor to determine how much physicians will be paid based on their costs and time. In addition, Medicare will expand coverage of colorectal cancer screening to include computer tomography colonography and blood-based biomarker screening, which will “remove barriers for much needed cancer prevention and early detection within rural communities and communities of color that are especially impacted” by the incidence of colorectal cancer, according to the CMS.
