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Locality adjustment for Medicare Physician Fee Schedule-based payments

CMS issued Transmittal 1681 February 13, 2009, related to locality adjustment for payments made to hospitals derived from the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). The MPFS is used as the basis to determine payment amounts for several types of services, for instance physical therapy, speech language pathology, and occupational therapy. These payments will now be based on the MPFS amount for the ZIP code where the actual service facility is located rather than the main facility’s ZIP code. [more]