Billing: CMS Evaluating Chiropractors' Ability to Provide And Collect for E/M Services
Agency estimates that chiropractors will see a two-percent increase in pay for total allowed charges in 2014.
The coming year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposal suggests that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is mulling over whether or not to enable chiropractors to provide and bill Medicare for E/M services. Some patients do look to their chiropractor as a primary care physician and complain about many other ailments besides subluxations, so this would be great news for chiropractors if it came to fruition.
“We are not proposing to pay chiropractors for E/M services in CY...
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