Survey Reveals Physicians Accelerating Adoption of Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Program

Following a slow start, U.S. physician groups have significantly accelerated their adoption of a key federal program aimed at improving the care of Medicare patients with chronic disease, while they remain relatively in the dark about the details of the 2015 law that the program has come to support. 

Forty-one percent of physician groups have launched a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program that meets the requirements for reimbursement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Management (CMS), according to a national survey by Smartlink Health Solutions (formerly Smartlink Mobile Systems), a provider of value-based healthcare technology solutions.  The online survey tracked the responses of 438 physicians, practice managers, and health system executives who were asked about MACRA and strategies like CCM that can help them meet MACRA’s requirements.

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