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2015 is around the corner, and with the New Year comes changes.
The
new year will bring in new regulations , HEDIS 2015 , PQRS 2015, the
implementation of ICD-10, and other changes:
Beginning next year, primary care physicians and others
could begin billing separately for chronic care management (CCM) services if
the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) is adopted
Telehealth services CMS proposes to cover under Medicare
include:
·
annual wellness
visits,
·
psychoanalysis,
·
psychotherapy, and
·
prolonged
evaluation and management services
Regarding the Sunshine Act, CMS is proposing, among other
changes, to begin requiring disclosure of payments drug and medical device
manufacturers make to speakers at certain continuing medical education (CME)
events. CME events previously had been exempted from Sunshine Act reporting
requirements. Eliminating the exemption “will create a more consistent
reporting requirement, and will also be more consistent for consumers who will
ultimately have access to the reported data,” according to CMS.
CPT 2015 Anticipated Code Changes
In 2015, many CPT code changes will take effect. For example:
A number of new radiology and radiation
oncology codes will be created in 2015. A total of 22 of the 35 new codes are
the result of bundling requests from the AMA’s Relativity Assessment Workgroup
(RAW). The purpose of the RAW is to identify potentially misvalued services.
The current screens used by the RAW are: codes frequently performed together,
fastest growing, CMS/Other time source and services previously flagged as new
technology
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