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- CMS Updates Pathologists Payment Rates for 2022 After Congress Acts
The CAP updated its analysis of Medicare payment changes to pathologists for 2022 following congressional action to mitigate pay cuts earlier in December. Download our 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule impact table showing these changes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had published its final 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on November 2. The initial fee schedule included an overall cut of about 4%, which largely stemmed from Medicare policy to offset increases to evaluation and management services. The CAP lobbied Congress throughout 2021 to reduce the decreases in payment to pathologists and other physicians affected by the cuts.
On December 9, Congress responded by passing the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act. The legislation increased payments on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in 2022 by 3%. The CMS followed by implementing the provisions in the law and increased the conversion factor used to calculate fee schedule rates to $34.6062 from $33.5983.