Don’t minimize de minimis: Understanding the newly proposed Physician Fee Rule

McKnight's July 15, 2021
Renee Kinder

Conversion factor, telehealth, supervision requirements and health equity were all outlined in this week’s publication of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule.

These areas have been reviewed and summarized with ease over the past couple of days in publications across the industry.

All the areas, that is, with the exception of de minimis.

We reach page 275 of 1757 of the proposed rule and we begin to dissect the multitiered and relatively complex process of understanding de minimis.

All I can say is thank goodness for our electronic medical record (EMR) companies. For those of you who remember logging time on paper service logs back in the day, imagine manual calculations...

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