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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently released the final ruling for this year's Medicare physician fee schedule. These changes include some exciting new regulations and rules for chronic care management.  One change will be new principal...

Today let’s look at communication between nurses and doctors.  Communication is key when dealing with chronic care management.  When communication is not key, disconnects can occur from simple misinterpretations, which can result in incorrect...

In part 1 & 2 of this series we defined the criteria for patients’ qualification for Chronic Care Management.  We’ve also identified three subsections of patient needs in Chronic Care Management.  In this installment, let’s look at one more Highest Risk...

In part 1 of "How To Qualify Your Patients For CCM," we defined the eligibility of the patient for such a program, and we determined that the highest risk patient would be the one who was recently hospitalized or is regularly in the ER.  With this installment,...

Let’s take a look at how you might go about managing your chronic care patients.  How do you add Chronic Care Management to your menu of services already underway in your practice?  You’re looking at the vast number of patients in your current practice, and...