2012 Revisions to Medicare Fee Schedule Proposed.

The article focuses on the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 1, 2011. It says that CMS aims to continue the current audiology and speech-language pathology Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures and add a new audiology measure. Furthermore, MPFS contains the resource-based relative value scale which is divided into three components such as physician work, practice expense and malpractice component.