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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released their CMS Fast Facts resource document for 2022 – 2025. The document includes summary information on Medicare and Medicaid total program enrollment, utilization, and expenditures, as well as the total number of Medicare providers, including physicians by specialty area.

There are a number of new items provided in 2025:

  • Medicare Populations, Calendar Year (CY) 2024
  • Medicaid & Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Populations, CY 2024
  • Medicare Deductibles, Coinsurance, Premiums, CY 2025
  • Original Medicare Persons Served and Payments by Type of Service, CY 2023
  • Medicare Part D Utilization and Expenditures, CY 2023
  • Medicaid & CHIP Payments by Type of Service, FY 2023
  • Medicare Institutional Providers, CY 2023
  • Medicare Non-Institutional Providers by Specialty, CY 2023
  • Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Prosthetics, Orthotics & Supplies (DMEPOS) Providers by Specialty, CY 2023
  • Medicare Prepaid Contracts, February 2025
  • National Health Expenditures, CY 2023
  • CMS Financial Data, FY 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced their intent to adopt a new interpretation of the statute that impacts how adjustments to the fee schedule based on information from competitive bidding programs apply to wheelchair accessories used with Group 3 complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs. As of July 1, 2017, the fee schedule amounts for wheelchair accessories and back and seat cushions used with Group 3 complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs will not be adjusted using information from the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program. Instead, the fee schedule amounts will be based on the unadjusted fee schedule amounts updated by the annual fee schedule covered item update. Suppliers are being instructed to continue to use the KU modifier when billing for wheelchair accessories and seat and back cushions furnished connection with Group 3 complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs with dates of service beginning July 1, 2017. This new action will help to protect access to complex rehabilitative power wheelchair accessories for those individuals that depend on them.