tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue 10

Pocket This Primary Care First Breakdown

Hint: Medicare pay may be adjusted based on your performance. CMS continues to churn out policy after policy, cutting the administrative burdens commonly associated with Medicare while simultaneously putting more of the financial onus on providers. The agency’s most recent iteration, the “Primary Care Initiative,” is another cost-savings, pro-patient venture that may or may not pay off for savvy providers. In the past, “acute-care providers” were the targets of “bundled payment models,” suggest attorneys Kristen Barlow and Alissa Smith of Dorsey and Whitney LLP, in the Dorsey Health Law blog. On a secondary...

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