Hospital Medicine Has a Specialty Code. Is the Memo Still in the Mail?

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Hospital Medicine Has a Specialty Code. Is the Memo Still in the Mail?

J Hosp Med. 2019 Sep 18;14:E1-E3

Authors: Flansbaum B, Leykum L, Lapps J

Abstract
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded Hospital Medicine a Medicare specialty code, "C6", in 2016. We examined the early uptake of C6 code using the 2017 Medicare Part B utilization data. We also compared the actual C6 specialty code usage against estimated rates of overall hospitalist billing using threshold-based hospitalist rates of Evaluation and Management codes to assess the integration of the newly introduced code. Billing activity associated with the C6 code was approximately one-tenth of expected rates.

PMID: 31532740 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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