ISASS Supports Letter to the HHS Requesting Elimination of Budget Neutrality Adjustments to Physician Payments for 2020 On July 1, 2020, multiple organizations, including ISASS, sent a letter to Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to remove budget neutrality negative adjustments under the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. The organizations indicated support for the actions of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in last year’s Medicare physician payment final rule to utilize the American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel coding framework, and the AMA Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee recommended values for office and outpatient visits starting January 1, 2021. The framework was the result of significant collaboration by an
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