As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to skyrocket, healthcare researchers around the world are working tirelessly to discover new life-saving medical innovations.
Type: CCM
COVID-19: CMS Changes for COVID-19 Response
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today is issuing an unprecedented array of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules to equip the American healthcare system with maximum flexibility to respond to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
COVID-19: Telehealth is Not Enough in a COVID-19 World
The aging and elderly, especially those eligible for Chronic Care Management programs are not just disproportionately susceptible to complications from COVID-19 virus, but their chronic illnesses as well. Telehealth is a helpful tool but inadequate without virtual care.
CMS Announces 2020 Code Changes for Chronically Ill Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) have recently released its 2020 guidelines for Chronic Care Management (CCM) and related services (ex: TPM, RPM, etc.) with some exciting changes including a new code.
2020 CMS Code Updates: Principle Care Management (PCM)
CMS is offering a new code called Principle Care Management (PCM) and is built for a patient with a single chronic condition diagnosis expected to last between three months and a year, or until the death of the patient.
2020 CMS Code Updates: Chronic Care Management (CCM)
Beginning January 1, 2020, we see a valued impact from additional CMS support for CCM that allows for more paid non-face-to-face time for your sickest patients.
2020 CMS Code Updates: Remote Patient Management (RPM)
CMS have finalized significant changes related to RPM which is great news for the providers who need more time monitoring and managing their patient's condition outside of the practice.
2020 CMS Code Updates: Transition Care Management (TCM)
TCM services reduced readmission rates, lowered mortality, and decreased health care costs. With the added value of this program, the reimbursement rates will be increasing. …
Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find
The new study found that patients who received drug therapy alone did not experience more heart attacks or die more often than those who also received bypass surgery or stents, tiny wire cages used to open narrowed arteries.
Typo in Regulation Costs Kansas Hospital $600K
Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kan., is out nearly $600,000 for the cost of treating a patient after the state's supreme court held Nov. 1 that a typo in Kansas' workers' compensation medical fee schedule is to be considered the "plain language" of the regulation.
