decisionhealth Newsletters, Part B News - 2017 Issue 3 (March)
Practices vanquish transitional care management demons, boost earnings
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Article Overview
This brief benchmark-style article is about transitional care management billing under Medicare and how practices performed over the first few years after the codes were introduced. It is useful for billing staff, coders, practice managers, and revenue cycle teams who track claim volumes, denials, and payment trends, as well as those monitoring policy changes that may affect future claims. The article provides a high-level look at utilization and reimbursement patterns and mentions a later CMS billing requirement change that could affect subsequent reporting.
Why This Topic Matters
It helps readers gauge whether their own transitional care management billing performance is in line with broader Medicare trends and alerts them to policy changes that may influence future claims.
What You Will Learn
- How transitional care management billing performed over a multi-year Medicare claims period
- What happened to claim volume, reimbursement, and denial trends over time
- Why later CMS billing changes may matter for future claim outcomes
- How benchmarking information can inform practice revenue cycle review
Who Should Read This
- Medical coders
- Billing specialists
- Revenue cycle managers
- Practice administrators
- Primary care practices
- Medicare billing teams
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