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CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 12, § 20.6
Update Factor for Fee Schedule Services
The CMS provides updates to the MPFSDB and other fee schedules annually or as otherwise
necessary. Claims processing A/B MACs (B) must maintain at least five full calendar years of
fee schedules and related pricing data (i.e., the current and four prior calendar years), regardless
of the number of updates or pricing periods within those five years.
History
(Rev. 2464, Issued: 05-04-12, Effective: 10-01-11-MCS/10-01-12-VMS, Implementation: 10-03-11-MCS, VMS Analysis and Design /10-01-12-VMS implementation)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
63dbedbda194446b037254eb2248decd6481b102cbb9303908dad8a7525e032e
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