CMS 2025 Physician Fee Schedule: What Family Medicine Needs to Know

The 2025 final rule brought a conversion factor decrease — but also notable changes family medicine providers should track:

• 📋Continued support for complex care management codes
• 📋Updates to behavioral health integration billing
• 📋Expansion of chronic pain management services reimbursement
• 📋Telehealth: several pandemic-era flexibilities made permanent

The fee schedule changes mean some practices are being paid less per unit of work — making coding accuracy more critical than ever. Every missed code or underdocumented encounter is revenue you've already earned but won't collect.

Is your billing keeping up with the 2025 rule changes?