Did you know that if you have at least 50 patients who qualify for chronic care management services, and you fail to code for these services correctly, your practice could be missing out on $55,200 or more in revenue each year? This revenue is too significant to ignore.
This is where national coding expert and educator Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, can help. Kim has put together a Chronic Care Management Coding Pack, which includes 2 step-by-step resources that will show you how to get reimbursed for the extra time it takes to care for your sickest patients. Read below to learn more about this must-have pack!
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PART 1: Chronic Care Management Coding 2019 Expert Report
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As our population ages, more and more of your patients are likely to have at least one chronic condition. And, as you know, these patients are more complex and can require significantly more of your time to treat and help them cope with their illnesses. In the past, this meant that you would lose money when treating your sickest patients…but not anymore.
In 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) incorporated new reimbursable codes to account for Complex Chronic Care, Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management and Behavioral Health Integration. This expanded the scope of chronic care services that can be billed and reimbursed.
New in 2018, CMS replaced many G codes with new CPT codes including those used to report Psychiatric Collaborative Care Management and Behavioral Health Integration.
Mastering how to correctly apply and bill these codes can get you paid for services you’ve been providing for free for years. CMS is moving toward a quality vs. quantity model, and this can work to your advantage — if you know how to correctly submit and support your claims.
Inside this brand-new expert report, Chronic Care Management Coding – Your Step-by-Step CCM Coding Guide to Help You Ethically Get Paid More for the Services You Provide to Your Sickest Patients, created in collaboration with nationally recognized coding expert Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, you can follow our expert’s step-by-step approach and finally get paid for the Chronic Care Management (CCM) services that your practice provides. Your office will be able to administer CCM, ethically boost your reimbursement, and ensure the outcomes that you, your providers, patients, and CMS want to achieve.
Here are just a few of the expert tactics you’ll receive by utilizing this expert report:
Get paid even more for greater complexity and longer duration services (99487 and 99489)
Reduce the time it takes to document consent with newly revised guidelines
Uncover hidden reimbursement for collaboration with psychiatric or behavioral health providers
Improve coordination of care with reduced communication requirements
Increase your payments for the extra time you spend planning chronic patient care with new add-on code
Boost pay-up for extended face-to-face time with your sickest patients
Uncover changes for Rural Health Clinics or Federally Qualified Health Centers
And so much more…
REMEMBER: Getting paid for the additional time and effort you put into caring for your sickest patients can pay off. For example, if you have just 100 patients who qualify for the CCM monthly reimbursement, that could mean another $51,252 per year for care that you are already providing. Or, if you have a 100 patients who qualify for complex CCM you could receive an additional $168,816 annually. Can you really afford NOT get paid for these services? Order your copy of this must-have expert report today!
PART 2: Chronic Care Mgmt: Improve Coding Accuracy, Get Paid More
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You can get paid even more for your sickest patients – basically reimbursing you closer to what you deserve for the added care you provide for them. But there is a catch…
…you must know how to correctly apply Chronic Care Management (CCM) codes (including their new code for 2019). On your own, this is no small feat. The reporting requirements are still numerous. But, with a little guidance, you can master the rules quickly and easily.
You can finally get paid more for the additional time you spend and services you provide to your chronically ill patients by attending this 90-minute online training session presented by national coding expert and educator Kim Garner Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO.
Here are just some of the tactics you’ll receive during this online training session:
Identify CCM eligible patients more easily and earn your $42.17 per month per patient
Calculate “hidden” times you can include toward the 20-minute requirement
Boost care planning pay up for patients with cognitive impairment
Identify all care providers that qualify to bill CCM – it might surprise you
Determine whether the CCM telehealth services code will work for you
Sidestep sabotaging CCM reimbursement with the four services you cannot bill at the same time
Learn how rural health clinics and FQHCs qualify to bill for CCM services
Avoid confusion between CCM and transitional care management with simple to use tools
Develop a successful patient-centered care plan document that will withstand an audit every time
Bullet-proof your CCM documentation to avoid denials and potential audits
And so much more…
Regardless of your specialty, if you see chronically ill patients, you deserve to receive additional reimbursement for the added time you spend
IMPORTANT: Considering that half of all Americans in the U.S. (117 million people) suffer from at least one chronic disease, it’s likely you have quite a few patients that qualify under CCM guidelines. That means you can pick up an additional $43 to $141 (depending on the complexity of each patient’s needs) per month per patient. This added revenue is compensating you for work you are going to provide anyway, so you have nothing to lose.
Here are just some of the CCM coding questions you’ll get answered during this must-attend online training:
Can all CCM codes be billed together within a month, same patient, same provider?
Who qualifies as “clinical staff” when calculating CCM time spent?
Is there a list of qualifying conditions? Does any chronic illness count?
Can specialists bill CCM, or only primary care practitioners?
When should the CCM claim be submitted?
Is a new patient consent required each calendar month or annually?
Can I bill for CCM if the beneficiary dies during the service period?
Can I bill for CCM services furnished to beneficiaries in SNFs, LTCs, ALFs, etc.?
What place of service (POS) should be reported on the physician claim?
If CCM services are provided “incident to,” does the billing practitioner need to ever see the patient?
Do all face-to-face activities count as billable time?
How do I allocate the total time spent between CCM and an E/M Visit on the same day?
Are there any services that cannot be billed under the same calendar month as CCM?
If a beneficiary declines to receive CCM services or does not provide consent, or if other conditions of payment for CCM are not met, can the practitioner bill the beneficiary?
For CPT codes 99490 and 99491, if I provide more than the minimum service time, can I bill more than one unit (or more than one line item) in the service period?
And so much more…
Don’t wait any longer. If you care for chronically ill patients and are not effectively utilizing CCM codes, you’re leaving tens of thousands of reimbursement dollars on the table just waiting to be collected. In only 90 minutes, you can get everything you need to ensure you receive the additional reimbursement you’re rightfully entitled to for spending the extra time it takes to care for your sickest patients. Sign up today.
Kim is an independent coding and reimbursement consultant, providing audit, training and oversight of coding and reimbursement functions for physicians. Kim completed three years of pre-medical education at the University of Alabama before she decided that she preferred the business side of medicine.
She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management and went on to obtain certification through the American Academy of Professional Coders and the American Health Information Management Association.
Recognizing the important position of compliance in today’s world, she has also obtained certification as a Certified Healthcare Compliance Consultant and a Certified Healthcare Audit Professional. Kim is also an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM trainer and has recently earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Health Law.
For over twenty-five years, Kim has worked with providers in virtually all specialties, from General Surgery to Obstetrics/Gynecology to Oncology to Internal Medicine and beyond. She has spoken at the national conference for numerous organizations.
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