CMS has established a new payment modifier — PD Diagnostic or related nondiagnostic item or service provided in a wholly owned or operated entity to a patient admitted as an inpatient within 3 days, ...
CMS posted its fact sheet for the Value-Based Payment Modifier Program for 2016. The value modifier was applied to physician payments beginning January 2015 under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ...
The first year of Medicare’s Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier program saw 29.3 percent of eligible practices penalized for failing to register and report data, according to a study published in ...