The agency contends the requirement is too burdensome.
According to the report, Medicare’s chronic care management code, which allows providers to bill for non-face-to-face coordination, launched last year. Only 275,000 Medicare patients received the service.
Read the Politico report to find out what other requirement CMS has said it is abandoning.
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