• Follow-up visits reduce readmissions. In the case of myocardial infarction patients, 31 percent of patients without a follow-up visit were readmitted to the hospital, while only 1 percent of patients that received a follow-up visit were readmitted.
• Physicians can receive $100 more for new transitional care management billing code from CMS. To use this code, as opposed to a regular evaluation and management code, physicians’ offices must make contact with the patient two days post-discharge and make a follow-up appointment at seven days for high complexity patients and at two weeks for moderate complexity patients.
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