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.
Type: Chronic Care Management
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.
FQHCs and Rural Health Clinics Can’t Catch a Break
More than 46 million Americans live in rural areas, and the system often works against them in nearly every dimension of care.
25% of Health Spending is Waste
Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.
Unnecessary ED Visits from Chronically Ill Costs $8.3 Billion Annually
Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.
56 Hospitals Facing Maximum Medicare Readmission Penalties
Medicare will cut payments to 2,583 hospitals by anywhere from 0.01 percent to the maximum of 3 percent for excessive readmissions.
