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OIG Cracks Down On Docs' CCM Pay

Published on Fri Sep 17, 2021

Be on the lookout for hassles over CCM payments to your ordering physicians to potentially affect referrals. Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began paying docs for Chronic Care Management in 2015. Then in 2017, “CMS unbundled complex CCM from noncomplex CCM and began paying separately for complex CCM,” the HHS Office of Inspector General says in a [...]
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