Medicare To Pay Physicians Via FFS For Chronic Care Management Services In 2015

Medicare plans to create new standards and two new billing codes for chronic care management, to be implemented in 2015. A separate payment system would be established in the Medicare physician fee schedule for complex chronic care management services furnished to patients with multiple complex chronic conditions that are expected to last at least 12 months or until the patient dies, and that place the patient at significant risk of death, acute exacerbation/decompensation, or functional decline. Via new codes for non-face-to-face services, Medicare would pay physicians for time spent establishing a care plan and managing that . . .