Improving access to colon cancer screening by considering a follow-up colonoscopy to an at-home test a preventive service, and covering it for individuals 45 years of age and above in line with recommendations from the US Preventative Services Task Force.Creating a new G-code for audiologists to bill for services without physician referral to allow patients direct access and receive care for non-acute hearing or balance assessments unrelated to hearing aids or examinations for the purpose of prescribing, fitting, or changing hearing aids once every 12 months.Making several temporarily available telehealth services during the public health emergency (PHE) covered through CY 2023 on a Category 3 basis extending the time these services are temporarily included on the telehealth services list following the end of the PHE.Adopting CPT changes in coding and documenting other evaluation and management (E/M) visits, including: hospital inpatient, hospital observation, emergency department, nursing facility, home or residence services, and cognitive impairment assessment.Expanding access to Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) by incorporating advance shared savings payments to certain ACOs allowing smaller ACOs more time to transition to downside risk and creating a health equity adjustment to reward excellent care delivered to underserved populations read our fact sheet for more information.Modernizing coverage for behavioral health services and improving access and quality by allowing licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other types of practitioners to bill Medicare under general supervision allowing psychiatric diagnostic evaluations to serve as the initiating visit for behavioral health integration and paying clinical psychologists and licensed clinical social workers providing integrated behavioral health services as part of a patient’s primary care team bundling certain chronic pain management and treatment services into new monthly payments and covering treatment and recovery services from mobile units read our blog for more information.

CMS issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule that announces and solicits public comments on proposed policy changes for Medicare payments under the PFS and other Medicare Part B payment policy issues.

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