tci Part B Insider - 2016 Issue 18

E/M Services: CMS: You Needn't Hold Transitional Care Management Claims for 30 Days

Date of face-to-face service can now be your DOS. Tracking your practice’s transitional care management (TCM) services can be a documentation headache—after performing the face-to-face visit, you’ve had to track that patient for a month, and then remember to submit your claim after the 30-day period ends. Fortunately, you’re no longer stuck watching the calendar before you send your TCM claims to Medicare, thanks to a policy change for 2016. Background: Ever since Medicare established the TCM codes in 2013, practices have been pleased to have a way to bill for the practitioner’s work...

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