Insurance

CMS is establishing a permanent separate coding and payment for longer virtual check-in services. The new code will be used to describe 11 to 20 minutes of medical discussion when the patient health issue may not necessarily require a visit, but assessing the needs of the patient may take additional time.

CMS will apply the MIPS automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to all individual MIPS physicians for the 2021 performance year.

Illinois physicians are facing potential cuts of nearly 10% in Medicare reimbursements come Jan. 1, 2022!

The open enrollment period for 2022 insurance will begin on November 1 and run one month longer than in previous years – to Jan. 15, 2022.