CMS will reduce payments on the professional component of certain advanced diagnostic imaging services when the scans are performed on the same patient in the same session on the same day, according to the Medicare agency's final 2012 physician fee schedule, released Nov. 1.
At 25%, the pay cut for certain second and subsequent imaging studies are not as dramatic as those proposed July 1, when the agency called for a 50% reduction for...
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