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You may find additional opportunity to get paid for the background work your providers perform in 2017 with CMS' plans to pay for non-face-to-face prolonged services, but keep an eye on billing requirements -- they may dampen the appeal.
Providers will see a 3.4% pay increase when performing chronic care management (CCM) services next year, and they'll gain a reimbursement channel for "complex" CCM.
 

Say hello to a new batch of G codes, newly reimbursable CPT codes and revised chronic care management (CCM) reporting criteria as CMS attempts to better capture the work a provider performs behind the scenes when treating episodic care.

You may be able to forget the full-year reporting requirement for meaningful use this year -- the year-long reporting mandate will be out the window if a proposed rule issued July 6 become final.
Light broke on hospital providers as CMS relented on payment cuts tied to the controversial two-midnight rule.

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