2025 Physician Fee Schedule Webinar: Registration Required
– Thursday, January 30 at 2:00 pm Eastern. Subject matter experts from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will present highlights of polic…
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CMS Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Medicare Learning Network (MLN) summary for Calendar Year 2025 Medicare Physician Fee S…
Advanced Primary Care Management Services: Get Information about Billing Medicare
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released information on billing Medicare for Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM). AC…
Updated Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Fact Sheet with 2025 Payments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated their Fact Sheet on Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) to include new information on Indian H…
New study on Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) payments for Sole Community Hospitals (SCH) and Medicare Dependent Hospitals (MDH)
– Researchers from the HRSA-funded Rural Residency Planning and Development Technical Assistance Center studied the effects of specific hospital c…
National Telehealth Resource Centers Reports on AI in Rural Health
The HRSA-supported National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), applications of AI, and ho…
Pharmacy-Based Preventive Services for Opioid Use Disorder: A Survey of U.S. Pharmacists
Using online survey data from 1,146 pharmacists, researchers examine their perceptions about drug use, drug screening, interventions, and the commitme…
NIDA Seeks People with Lived Experience for New Working Group
– Respond by January 10. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is seeking people with lived or living experience (PWLLE) with drug use to par…
VA Proposes Expanded Access to Telehealth for Rural Veterans
– Comment by January 13. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced its intention to eliminate copayments for all VA telehealth servic…
Rural Health Clinic CY 2025 All-Inclusive Rate
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) all-inclusive rate for calendar year (CY) 2025. The payment l…
