AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 4 (April)

Transitional Care Management Services (April 2013)

April 2013 pages 3-4 Transitional Care Management Services In order to address the need for coordination of care, the Evaluation and Management (E/M) section in the 2013 CPT codebook was revised to include two new subsections: Complex Chronic Care Coordination Services and Transitional Care Management Services. This article focuses on the new Transitional Care Management Services subsection. Transitional care management (TCM) services are performed during transitions in care from an inpatient hospital setting (including acute hospital, rehabilitation hospital, long-term acute care hospital), partial hospital, observation status in a hospital, or skilled nursing facility/nursing facility, to the patient's community setting...

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