Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Medicare billing study highlights facilitators and barriers to CCM use

 

Medicare billing study highlights facilitators and barriers to CCM use

Health Leaders Media

The use of chronic care management (CCM) CPT codes increased over a four-year period, but physicians infrequently reported codes for complex CCM, according to findings from a review of Medicare claims recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine. To learn more about the national trends in chronic care management use, physicians at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle examined 2015-2018 Medicare data capturing 100% of CCM claims submitted to Medicare by physicians nationwide. They calculated service counts and payments for both paid and denied CCM services, and compared utilization and payment by physician specialty.

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