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SUBMITTER: Agarwal SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7490751 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agarwal Sumit D SD Barnett Michael L ML Souza Jeffrey J Landon Bruce E BE
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20200501 5
To enhance compensation for primary care activities that occur outside of face-to-face visits, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently introduced new billing codes for transitional care management (TCM) and chronic care management (CCM) services. Overall, rates of adoption of these codes have been low. To understand the patterns of adoption, we compared characteristics of the practices that billed for these services to those of the practices that did not and determined the extent ...[more]