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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has developed a Behavioral Health Strategy, which seeks to remove barriers to care and services, and to adopt a data-informed approach to evaluate behavioral health programs and policies.
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The bipartisan bill introduced by Reps. Doris Matsui, D-California, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, aims to give targeted funding to providers and community mental health centers aimed at adopting health IT systems.
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Secretary McDonough statement on FY 2023 VA Budget
In outlining his Unity Agenda, President Biden identified supporting Veterans as a key priority. His budget request supports the importance of ensuring Veterans have timely access to high quality services and benefits.
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Roughly 14.5 million Americans signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges for 2022, a 21% increase over last year and the highest volume since the law was signed 12 years ago according to a new HHS report.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is examining risk adjustment tactics that have led to overpayments to some Medicare Advantage plans, Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters Friday.
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Overview; CCM, PCM and RTM Program Updates:
If you are planning to offer, or currently offer chronic care management or remote monitoring services to your patients, CMS is providing more financial incentive with new billing codes and increased reimbursement rates.
CMS significantly increased the reimbursement rate for Chronic Care Management and created a new add-on code for provider time spent managing CCM patients.
Principal Care Management also received a significant reimbursement increase...
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Nearly two-thirds of providers see value-based care as a way to improve relationships with patients and enhance care management strategies, according to reporting from Insights by Xtelligent Healthcare Media.
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A new study by the American Medical Association and published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that $979 million in excess health spending annually comes from primary care physician turnover, with $260 million, attributable to burnout.
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Diagnostic excellence in the care of older adults requires awareness of the risks of errors of commission (overtesting and overtreatment) as well as the risks of omission (missing a diagnosis because of mistaken assumptions or faulty heuristics). A personalized approach to setting goals of care is desirable for all patients, and it is especially important for older adults.
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For 2022, new codes have been added to the care management group, some have been modified for clarity, and others have been tweaked to better match their Medicare G-code counterparts.
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