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As part of the Patients over Paperwork initiative, beginning in March the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will streamline its survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals. Cutting the Red Tape Since launching the Patients over Paperwork initiative in fall 2017, CMS has streamlined regulations to reduce clerical and administrative burdens that weigh […]
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New documentation guidelines will change how you code and audit evaluation and management services. In response to an executive order, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced the Patients Over Paperwork initiative, which focuses on reducing administrative burdens placed on clinicians while improving care coordination, health outcomes, and patients’ ability to […]
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The jury is still out on whether “cutting the red tape” will lessen burdensome regulations that have long plagued evaluation and management services. Providers have long complained about having to enter duplicative and clinically insignificant information into the medical record to meet coding and billing requirements. Now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
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Thank you
Jennifer Garland
I’ve been spending a lot of time reading about the new Medicare proposed rule…Patients Over Paperwork. My provider (Internal Medicine/PCP) is really concerned about the decrease in reimbursement and we’ve had conversations about needing to see more patients…which seems pretty impossible.
I would love to hear some thoughts from other offices and figured this was a great place to start.
Thanks in advance!