Open AccessThe Final Rule for 2022: What’s New and How Changes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program Affect Dermatologists
Author(s) -
Maria Flamm
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
cutis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2326-6929
pISSN - 0011-4162
DOI - 10.12788/cutis.0448
Subject(s) - medicaid , medicine , payment , quality (philosophy) , schedule , affect (linguistics) , family medicine , health care , finance , business , management , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , economics , economic growth
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2022 final rule, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, contains updates affecting the practice of dermatology. This article reviews many of the changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Quality Payment Program (QPP) and their impact on clinical practice.