Re: end-of-life planning added to Medicare by regulation

On 12/28/2010 9:47 AM, Ellen K. wrote:

<jaj001> wrote in message

This is where the article is off base and off course. Physicians
cannot be paid for something under Medicare reimbursement practices
when there is no CPT code. Therefore, no code no money. The original
author is misinformed by fear mongers.


You can check the text of the regulation. If there is currently no
billing code for this activity, I'm sure one will be added. Or perhaps
the annual checkup visit will be allowed to be longer. Being that the
article is from the New York Times, the leading liberal newspaper in the
US, it's highly unlikely it would report this out of fearmongering,
their editorial opinion is that this is a good idea.

Hilarious!
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