Benchmark of the Week: Discharge management utilization by specialty, 2011
Effective Nov 19, 2012
Published Nov 19, 2012
This chart presents the top 14 specialties in the order of most discharge management utilization to least. The data come from a Part B News analysis of 2011 Medicare claims data. All service counts are derived from a combination of hospital discharge management codes (99238-99239) and nursing facility discharge management codes (99315-99316). Note: The final 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule created new CPT codes for transitional care management (TCM) in the 30 days following a discharge from a hospital or skilled nursing facility. As explained below, these codes will be strongly correlated with the TCM codes in 2013.
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