Concerns over CMS E/M payment proposal

The CMS says that the need to reduce time spent coding is driving its new proposal to flatten the 2019 payment for E&M visits that are coded levels 2-5. Also today, low disease activity in SLE compares favorably with clinical remission, medical associations want withdrawal of Title X changes, and telomere length is linked to COPD exacerbations and mortality. Listen to the MDedge Daily News for today’s top news.