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Face-to-Face Behavioral Counseling for Obesity, 15 minutes: 0.74 RVUs

by Thomas McKnight, MD Uncategorized

The AAFP has published guidance on new Medicare preventive services for 2012. You can view them here. This guidance corroborates onofficial early reports from CMS spokespersons. You can view the pfd here.

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Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity: Pub 100-04 Medicare Claims Processing – February 03, 2012

by Keith McGuinness Physician Tools

On February 3, 2012 the CMS Manual System published additional guidance on Medicare claims processing for intensive behavioral counseling. You can download the pdf here: www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R2409CP.pdf. We are interested in your reaction as well as the questions that occur to you as you read the document.

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Shared Medical Appointments to Treat Obesity in Primary Care

by Keith McGuinness Practice Management

Is there any reason shared medical appointments (SMA) should not be used to lower the cost of the face-to-face encounter that Medicare requires for obesity counseling? Support Patients Find in Group Visits Enhances Outcomes: Shared Medical Appointments Can Boost Practices’ Productivity, Revenue, was published by the AAFP in 2010. Here is an excerpt from the [...]

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