Congress Steps In: Medicare Cuts for 2022 Put on Hold
December 15, 2021 It seems to happen every year: the plunging sword of Damocles is avoided at the last minute. In the present context, the threat that had been hanging over the head of every Medicare provider was a set of substantial cuts in payment tied to patient services. Sequestration and cuts to the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) conversion factors (CFs) have loomed large over the last few years as consistent threats to provider paychecks, only to be resolved—to…