How The 2018 Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Affects Your Pay

In the next few weeks, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) will finalize the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule with changes to reimbursement rates for pathology services next year. On Thursday, November 9 at 1 pm ET/12 PM CT find out which pathology payment changes will affect your practice during this informative webinar.

The CAP engages with the CMS directly to protect the value of pathology services for its members and through its direct work with the AMA Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) for physician work relative values. Led by Donald Karcher, MD, FCAP, Chair of the Council on Government and Public Affairs, W. Stephen Black-Schaffer, MD, FCAP, Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee, and Jonathan Myles, MD, FCAP, of the Board of Governors, this 60-minute webinar will review how the final fee schedule will affect services, such as therapeutic apheresis, pathology consultations during surgery, and tumor immunohistochemistry in 2018.

Webinar Materials

Handout (PDF, 594 KB)

Presenter:

Donald Karcher, MD, FCAP
W. Stephen Black-Schaffer, MD, FCAP
Jonathan L. Myles MD, FCAP