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By now you’ve probably heard that the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) has issued its proposed 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program. While it contains a number of changes that affect physician documentation of care, drug pricing, and transparency, there are also three items that should be of particular interest […]

Chronic Care Management (CCM) is now a unique Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) service designed to pay separately for 20 minutes of non face-to-face care coordination services furnished to Fee for Service Medicare beneficiaries with multiple (2 or more) chronic conditions expected to last 12 months or more.  Non Facility Based, non-geographic base fee is $ […]