Use of Chronic Care Management Codes for Medicare Beneficiaries: a Missed Opportunity?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians spend significant time outside of regular office visits caring for complex patients, and this work is often uncompensated. In 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a billing code for care coordination between office visits for beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.

Objective

Characterize use of the Chronic Care Management (CCM) code in New England in 2015.

Design

Retrospective observational analysis.

Participants

All Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in New England continuously enrolled in Parts A and B in 2015.

Intervention

None.

Main measures

The primary outcome was the number of beneficiaries with a CCM claim per 1000 eligible beneficiaries. Secondary outcomes included the total

SUBMITTER: Gardner RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206335 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature