We are continuing our currently approved time of 2.5 hours required for new QCDRs that do not submit QCDR measures under the full self-nomination process, and our estimated per response times for a QCDR to submit a new QCDR measure (2 hr/response) and an existing or borrowed QCDR measure (0.5 hr/response)
(26) Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (CPT Codes 97012, 97014, 97016, 97018, 97022, 97032, 97033, 97034, 97035, 97110, 97112, 97113, 97116, 97140, 97530, 97533, 97535, 97537, and 97542 and HCPCS Code G0283) The RUC's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee (HCPAC) previously reviewed 19 physical medicine and rehabilitation codes in February 2017
In contrast to situations where the patient's overall, ongoing care is being managed, monitored, and/or observed by a practitioner, we believe that there are situations when care is provided by a practitioner who would not serve as ( the continuing focal point for all needed health care services. Similarly, there are some time- or condition-limited practitioner-patient relationships that are clearly not indicative of the ongoing care that we anticipate practitioners would be responsible for when furnishing APCM services
Our MVP Participant assumptions have limitations: the measure list used to simulate MVP participation does not align completely with what is proposed in section IV.A.4.a
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