AMA, AAFP, ACP: CMS should reconsider proposed physician payment policies

CMS is currently reviewing more than 15,000 comments it received regarding its proposals that would overhaul physician payment policies and reduce clinician burden in 2019, an agency spokesperson told Healio Family Medicine.
The agency’s major proposals include: Simplifying, streamlining and offering flexibility in documentation requirements for Evaluation and Management (E/M) office visits; and removing burdensome and overly complex functional status reporting requirements for outpatient therapy.
“[These] reforms proposed by CMS bring us one step closer to a modern health care

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