Telehealth services are likely to promote health, wellness, and disease management, providing an avenue to offer efficient, high-quality care while supporting value-based care in a cost-effective manner. Although the benefit of telehealth is obvious and its value is continually highlighted by CMS, it appears the services are underutilized.
Providers will find significant leeway in how they can approach and report advance care planning services for physicians given CMS’ open-ended coding requirements, which should push the already strong growth of the codes to new heights.
A case manager at a community hospital has a cancer patient who comes to the emergency department and requires hospitalization. The patient wants to transfer to the hospital where she goes for chemotherapy treatments, but due to busy flu season, that hospital has no beds.
This week's note from the instructor is the second in a two-part series that discusses the intricacies of Medicare's inpatient hospital lifetime reserve days benefit and the challenges associated with it.
