Fierce Health Payers December 1, 2020
The Trump administration has finalized the annual regulation governing physician payments, and in the rule has approved payment adjustments to evaluation and management visits that drew ire from docs.
The changes to E/M visits would boost payments for these services, with the goal of empowering physicians to intervene more quickly to catch complex conditions and better manage patients’ health, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma said on a call with reporters on Tuesday.
“These payment increases…support clinicians who manage ongoing care of patients with a host of chronic diseases or patient transition between hospitals, nursing facilities and home,” Verma said.
However, the physician fee schedule is required to be budget neutral, leading to decreases elsewhere, with some...
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