primary care physician

Maryland Medicaid: Primary Care Rate Increase Continues in 2015

  A provision of the Affordable Care Act required Medicaid programs to reimburse primary care providers (PCPs) at a matching level to the Medicare rates in 2013 and 2014 for EM codes and vaccine admin codes. The federal government funded the increase at 100 percent. Based on the original legislation, federal funding for the increase […]

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Medicare to Pay Doctors for Chronic Care Management

2015 will bring some well-deserved additional reimbursement for primary care physicians and other providers that manage some of the most difficult patients in the healthcare system: those with multiple chronic illnesses. Beginning in 2015, Medicare is going to begin to make separate, monthly payments to physicians for chronic care management (CCM) services. These services include

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