Benchmark of the Week: Discharge management utilization by specialty, 2011

This chart presents the top 14 specialties in the order of most discharge management utilization to least. The data come from a Part B News analysis of 2011 Medicare claims data. All service counts are derived from a combination of hospital discharge management codes (99238-99239) and nursing facility discharge management codes (99315-99316). Note: The final 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule created new CPT codes for transitional care management (TCM) in the 30 days following a discharge from a hospital or skilled nursing facility. As explained below, these codes will be strongly correlated with the TCM codes in 2013.

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