BC Advantage - 2017 Issue 4

Chronic Care Management: The Updates for 2017

Based on the latest statics, three of every 4 Americans age 65 and older have multiple chronic conditions. Because of this, along with our aging population as a whole, chronic care management (CCM) services have become vital to improving health outcomes of our senior citizens while reducing the rising healthcare costs overall. In 2015 Medicare began reimbursing providers for providing CCM Services under CPT code 99490.  By 2017 CMS realized that there were both non-complex and complex chronic care management services that were provided. Because of this, the time that is required of a practitioner to provide these...

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