tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 41

PHYSICIANS: CMS Launches Demo Directed At FFS Benes

Project covers a wide range of fee-for-service patients.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants physicians' help with a new demonstration that is under way to identify and manage high-cost Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.Under the Care Management for High Cost Beneficiaries demonstration, CMS has dispersed six Care Management Organizations that will "deliver provider-based intensive care management services to certain FFS Medicare beneficiaries with one or more chronic diseases," CMS announced in a Sept. 28 Medlearn Matters article.The CMHCB demonstration and the associated CMO projects will test whether supplemental care management services can decrease unnecessary hospital stays...

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