CMS’ Final Rule expands Medicare reimbursement for chronic care management (CCM) services including telehealth. CCM requires at least 20 minutes per month of non-face-to-face care by a care team under a provider. It includes services like remote patient monitoring, medication management, and care coordination. Telehealth can help provide 24/7 access and monitor medical, functional, and psychosocial needs between in-person visits. Providers must meet documentation and patient consent requirements for reimbursement.
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Chronic Care Management (CCM): Understand how to capture incremental revenueDiagnotes, Inc.
By now you’ve likely heard that qualifying physicians can receive approximately $42/patient/month from CMS for non-face-to-face care management of patients with two or more chronic conditions. And, in many cases, with the right tracking and reporting, you may be able to capture this revenue for work your team is already doing. In just 30 minutes, you will understand the chronic care management program requirements and see how easy it is to capture and report qualifying activities.
Chronic Care Management - Implemented By TimeDoc - May 2018Dan Wellisch
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This webinar will provide an overview of the evaluation study being done at the Durham Clinic, an integrated health home run by Cherry Street Health Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The study seeks to determine whether the delivery of health care through a multi-disciplinary team using the chronic care management model delivers better symptom management and reduced impact of the
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Chronic Care Management: 6 Tips for Documentation SuccessManny Oliverez
Take advantage of the Chronic Care Reimbursement opportunity with these tips!
Healthcare providers can be reimbursed for the hours that they spend on the phone, filling prescriptions, and completing paperwork. Medicare now offers reimbursement for doctors who are assisting patients with chronic medical conditions.
The key to reimbursement from Medicare is all in the required documentation for Chronic Care Management (CCM). Here are some tips for documenting for CCM.
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List of 6 Chronic Care Management Software companies that can help you with your practice’s CCM program.
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The Chronic Care Management at CMS is intended to provide 20 minutes non face-to-face services for patients suffering from two or more chronic conditions by providers, they can either use mHealth or telehealth technology to fulfill the CCM criteria.
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Chronic Care Management program is indeed a good idea to track your patients regularly. But when done manually, it becomes another burden for the physician. This is when a Chronic Care Management software comes to play. It reduces the time and manual effort spent in giving the CCM services.
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Visit Our Website: http://www.CaptureBilling.com/
The Chronic Care Management at CMS is intended to provide 20 minutes non face-to-face services for patients suffering from two or more chronic conditions by providers, they can either use mHealth or telehealth technology to fulfill the CCM criteria.
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Visit Our Website: http://www.CaptureBilling.com/
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Whether referred to as integrated healthcare or accountable care, the
current focus on new healthcare models is a reaction to long-standing
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• Fragmented rather than integrated and coordinated
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within and outside of the care setting
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standardized across care sites
• Rewarded more for volume than for quality and cost outcomes
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and more costly than can be tolerated, particularly against the backdrop of
a challenging worldwide economy. The old dictum ‘if you provide healthcare,
they will pay’ no longer applies. Public payers, private payers, and regulatory
agencies are wielding both carrots and sticks to drive healthcare organizations
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cost control.
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The CMS proposed rule for physician payment and coding changes sets the tone for the upcoming year. Attending this update ensures you are well-informed about the latest regulatory changes affecting healthcare services. Understanding the modifications proposed by CMS allows providers to adapt their coding practices, ensuring accurate reimbursement for the services they provide.
Knowledge of issues that were not implemented for 2023 provides valuable insights into what CMS is considering for the following year. This foresight enables strategic planning for 2024, allowing healthcare professionals to anticipate and prepare for potential changes. This year's update promises significant changes to key areas such as EM services, splits/shared care, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and complex chronic care management (CCM).
Register,
https://conferencepanel.com/conference/cms-physician-final-rules-for-2024-find-out-what-cms-has-finalized-from-the-proposed-rules
Due to popular demand, the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) team hosted a repeat of the webinar that was originally held on Thursday, April 21, 2016. During this webinar Model team members provided an overview of the model specifically for health IT vendors.
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Geriatric care management reduces Medicare losses
Healthcare costs for the elderly are rising rapidly in the United States. One way for a hospital to control these rising costs is to implement a geriatric care management system. The goal of a system is to change the way the hospital treats medically complex Medicare patients and, thus, reduce unnecessary hospital costs. Such a system requires a process for identifying elderly patients in need of geriatric care management services, treating them efficiently, and assessing the system itself. An effective process usually results in significant cost savings for the hospital as well as improved patient care and satisfaction.
While people aged 65 and older make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account or 6 percent overall healthcare expenditures.(a) By the year 2000, the elderly population will be responsible for 58 percent of all hospital days and almost half of all healthcare expenditures.(b) Furthermore, fragmentation of services and funding sources makes it difficult for the elderly and their families to obtain appropriate care.
Thus, care management becomes extremely important in order to effectively address the increasing healthcare needs and costs of elderly Americans.
A geriatric care management system designed to restructure the delivery of care for Medicare patients is one way hospitals can control costs. Such a system is based on the concept that a relatively small proportion of Medicare patients must be targeted for focused care management in order for hospitals to increase the quality of care, avoid financial losses, and prevent poor clinical outcomes. The patients targeted are those who, without focused management, would account for the majority of hospital problems involving excessive resource use and long lengths of stay. Because these patients can be prospectively identified, focused care management techniques can be employed to ensure appropriate and efficient hospital care, thereby reducing lengths of stay and costs. The geriatric care management system thus provides hospitals with ways to reduce a patient's length of stay and to use hospital resources more effectively.
The system focuses on three functions: identification of patients needing care management, geriatric care management intervention, and program performance evaluation. The performance evaluation provides information a hospital can use to improve the use of its resources and reduce patients' lengths of stay.
IDENTIFICATION
The task of identifying Medicare patients who require geriatric care management starts with an analysis of hospital data related to discharge geriatric patients. This process involves analyzing hospital data to identify DRGs and admitting diagnoses as well as characteristics of patients and physicians associated with inappropriate lengths of stay; excessive resource use (such as l.
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New regulations, rising costs and the consumerization of healthcare are fueling innovation in HCIT. Providers look to update their tech stacks in order to promote patient engagement, interoperability and operational efficiency, as well as to achieve financial success through alternative reimbursement models. Check out this report to learn how Catalyst Investors sees the provider solution landscape evolving.
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Evaluate meaningful use regulations for recovery audit contractors (RACs) and electronic health records (EHRs), as well as the impact on either case management or performance incentives. What is the purpose of these regulations? How effective are they in meeting the purpose? Support your answer with course resources-attached
Part TWO
In response to your peer-provided below, agree or disagree with their assessments of the effectiveness of RAC and EHR meaningful use regulations. Be sure to justify your answer.
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MEANINGFUL USE REGULATIONS FOR RECOVERY AUDIT CONTRACTORS & ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS
IMPACT ON CASE MANAGEMENT OR PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES.
In 2015 the Board of Registration in Medicine introduced a set of regulations requiring physicians to demonstrate proficiency in the use of electronic medical records, as well as the skills to achieve the federal Meaningful Use standard. Under the regulations, physicians are considered to have demonstrated proficiency if they meet any one of the following conditions:
· Participating in the Meaningful Use program as an Eligible Professional
· Having a relationship with a hospital that has been certified as a Meaningful Use participant. This relationship would be satisfied by any oneof the following conditions:
. Employed by the hospital
. Credentialed by the hospital to provide patient care
. Having a “contractual agreement” with the hospital
· Completing at least three hours of accredited CME program on electronic health records. Such a program must, at a minimum, discuss the core and menu set objectives, as well as the clinical quality measures for Meaningful Use.1
The Recovery Audit Contractor, or RAC, program was created through the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) to identify and recover improper Medicare payments paid to health care providers under fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare plans. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is required by law to make the program permanent for all states by January 1, 2010, under section 302 of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006.2 The main goals for RAC include:
• Minimize Provider Burden
• Ensure Accuracy
• Maximize Transparency
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Benefits of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Providers who use EHRs report tangible improvements in their ability to make better decisions with more compreh.
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MANAGEMENT FOR QUALIFIED MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES
Key findings from CMS’ Final Rule for CY 2015 regarding
chronic care management (CCM) requirements for Medicare
FFS patients with multiple chronic conditions, telehealth
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CARE COORDINATION
WITH TELEHEALTH
2. Care Coordination with Telehealth
CMS expands chronic care management (CCM) reimbursement, including telehealth
services as part of CCM, but core requirements are extensive and rigorous
CCM Services Where
Telehealth Can Help
In Provision
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management services
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medical, functional and psychosocial
• Timely receipt of all recommended
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development, CMS will reimburse providers for specified, non-face-to-face CCM services to qualified
beneficiaries nationally. This includes remote patient monitoring provided via telehealth—the remote
monitoring of a patient’s physical, mental and social conditions.
Basic Requirements for CCM
Implementation
CCM requires a minimum of 20 minutes per calendar month of clinical
staff time of non-face-to-face care management and coordination,
with specified services as directed by a physician or other qualified
health care professional. In addition, the patient and care must have the
following required elements1
:
• Multiple (two or more) chronic conditions
• Duration: lasting at least 12 months or until death
• Risk: the patient is at significant risk of death, acute exacerbation/decompensation or
functional decline
• A comprehensive care plan in a certified EHR to 2011 or 2014 standards2
must be
established, implemented, revised and monitored
The first essential step in implementing CCM is the face-to-face patient
visit: an annual wellness visit, comprehensive evaluation and management
(E&M) visit or initial preventative physical examination (IPPE). The provider
then must secure the patient’s written consent, provide a written or
electronic copy of the care plan and document both in the certified EHR.
Medicare CCM excludes patients in similar existing programs, such as the
Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI).
Telehealth & CCM Reimbursement
CCM services, including telehealth included in the care plan as a means
of patient data collection, utilize a new current procedural terminology
(CPT) E&M code, 99490, with an unadjusted non-facility fee of $42.60
per patient per calendar month.
Contrary to reports issued shortly after the Final Rule’s release, this code
cannot be bundled with an existing CPT code, 99091, on the collection
and interpretation of physiologic data4
.
3. Qualifying Chronic Conditions
CMS has not yet provided a list of “chronic conditions”; however, CMS’ Chronic Condition Data Warehouse
(CCW) provides researchers with beneficiary, claims and assessment data on 27 specified chronic conditions5
.
CMS may ultimately recognize other conditions for providing CCM.
Where Telehealth Services Can Fit In A CCM Care Plan
Telehealth integration into the 20 minutes or more in time spent in non-face-to-face patient CCM can be not
only in vital signs physiologic monitoring, but also in qualitative information gathering and patient education.
Most telehealth systems now include these features. The time spent by staff individually reviewing remotely
monitored data and consulting with the patient is eligible for reimbursement, not the time that the patient
spends under monitoring. Beyond furnishing physiologic data, telehealth can also play a vital part in the total
provision of CCM in other ways:
• Asking questions, providing education and patient self-management skill building according to disease management protocols (DMPs)
• 24/7 patient access to care management services; patients can use telehealth hubs for secure messaging and sending their vital
data to providers
• Ongoing assessment of medical, functional and psychosocial needs that may not be readily apparent on the face-to-face visit
• Notification and recording of preventative services through telehealth scheduling functions which also improve
patient access, for instance appointment scheduling
• Medication scheduling, reminders to take medication, reconciliation and review
• Care plan documentation through telehealth platform reporting
• Documentation of need for adjustments in care
• Exchange of care plan and patient information with other providers, without going through an EHR6
Many telehealth platforms also integrate with EHRs and can assist with ongoing documentation.
Who Performs and Can Bill For CCM
Physicians (regardless of specialty), advanced practice registered nurses (APRN), physician assistants (PA),
clinical nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives are eligible to both perform and bill for CCM. Non-
face-to-face CCM can be performed by additional licensed clinical staff subject to the general supervision of
a physician or other practitioner: registered nurses (RN), licensed practical nurses (LPN), licensed specialist
clinical social workers (LSCSW) and medical technical assistants (certified nursing assistants and certified
medical assistants).
Since the Final Rule requires only general supervision, a provider could contract with a third party to provide
non-face-to-face CCM, provided there is electronic access to the patient’s care plan. This permits smaller
providers to take advantage of CCM and reduces potential physician time commitment.7
The 20 Minute Minimum & Remote Monitoring
According to CMS, “practitioners who engage in remote monitoring of patient physiological data of eligible
beneficiaries may count the time they spend reviewing the reported data towards the monthly minimum
time for billing the CCM code, but cannot include the entire time the beneficiary spends under monitoring or
wearing a monitoring device.”8
Time spent on different days or by different clinical staff members may be combined to meet the 20 minutes
or more CCM requirement. However, if two individuals are providing services at the same time, only one
practitioner can be paid per month.
Using tools to track time, providers and workflow are essential to proper billing of CCM. The challenge to practices
is to ensure that the care team follows all the steps, documents and assesses time spent on CCM care.