Fierce Healthcare September 11, 2018
Many commenters asked CMS to drop a controversial proposal to change billing codes for office visits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) asked for comments on its proposed physician fee schedule and boy, oh boy, did it get them: 15,314 of them.
As the comment period ended at 5 p.m. yesterday on the government proposal, CMS got pages and pages of reaction, including a strong call from many for the agency to abandon a controversial proposal to consolidate evaluation and management (E/M) billing codes because of fears it will leave physicians who treat high-acuity patients underpaid.
While CMS proposed the change to streamline documentation and give doctors more time with patients, one physician group said the result would...
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