Medicare’s New Quality Payment Program & the Physician Fee Schedule—What Pathologists Need to Know

The healthcare payment landscape is changing fast and the financial impacts for physicians could be enormous. In this CAPcast, Dr. Diana Cardona will discuss the primary issues related to Medicare’s quality program and physician fee schedule that will impact pathologists. Dr. Cardona is the Medical Director of the Surgical Pathology and Immunopathology Laboratories at Duke University Medical Center. If you are attending CAP17 in the Washington, DC, region, be sure to register for Dr. Diana Cardona’s session entitled, Medicare’s New Quality Payment Program and the Physician Fee Schedule—You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, on Monday, Oct. 9 from 2-4pm. She will be joined by other CAP advocacy leaders in teaching this course, Drs. Stephen Black-Schaffer, Patrick Godbey, and Jonathan L. Myles. Registration is now open online at thepathologistsmeeting.org.