In the recent Healio article titled “New year, new code: How to get paid for chronic care management in 2015, part 2,” comes an update from Catherine Brandon and Paul Rudolf at Arnold & Porter LLP regarding regulatory and legislative topics that impact the healthcare landscape.
The article states, “Beginning in 2015, physicians and other qualified health care professionals will be able to separately bill Medicare for providing non-face-to-face chronic care management, or CCM, services by billing CPT code 99490. In addition to the scope of service requirements described in part 1 of this article, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has mandated the use of certain electronic health record and other electronic data sharing capabilities in providing CCM services.” Read the full article here.
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