Erschienen in:
03.06.2020 | Concise Research Report
Implications of Changes in Medicare Payment and Documentation for Primary Care Spending and Time Use
verfasst von:
Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD, Zirui Song, MD, PhD, Russell S. Phillips, MD, Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2021
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Excerpt
Primary care is—ideally—accessible, timely, first-contact care that is comprehensive, coordinated, and longitudinal. To support primary care practices, several states have passed regulations or legislation to raise primary care spending to 7–12% of total healthcare spending.
1, 2 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the first major change to primary care payment in the Physician Fee Schedule in decades—raising fees for evaluation and management visits, and lowering documentation requirements (obviating rule-based review of systems and exam elements in favor of time-based or decision-complexity-based coding), beginning 2021.
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