Hundreds of groups raise concerns about E/M payment proposal

Dive Brief:

• Nearly 300 patient and provider groups and other health organizations sent two separate letters to CMS Administrator Seema Verma to protest proposed evaluation and management (E/M) service changes in the 2019 Physician Payment Rule.

• A letter that included the American Medical Association and about 150 other groups did praise the rule’s effort to cut back on physician paperwork.

• However, another letter that was signed by 126 groups said “this proposed approach to reducing paperwork would have unintended consequences for Medicare beneficiaries” like doctors responding to the rate cuts by spending less time with patients or cherry-picking the healthiest patients.

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