Anticipated Medicare fee schedule to release administrative burden – Let the Doctors remain Doctors

There are proposed policy revisions in Medicare payment schedule by American Medical Association (AMA) in collaboration with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The aim is to streamline reporting requirements, reduce paperwork, improve workflow and contribute to a better environment for healthcare professionals as well as their Medicare patients.

The provision to alter how documenting & coding (E/M Services) stands out and will be implemented in 2021, worked on by both AMA & CMS with the help of the medical community. This showcases the complexity of the rendered services and the resources required. This is a big step in curbing the documentation burdens in medicine.

This proposal reveals the raised complexity of these services and the means needed to provide them, the significance of this represents an initiative towards reducing administrative burdens in medicine and make it easy for doctors to concentrate on providing quality services to patients. The AMA is fully prepared to help the entire healthcare community system through implementing the simplified method to E/M coding and documentation with an aim to encourage key principles of accessibility, quality, affordability and innovation.

CMS show its pledge in lining up patients over paperwork, collaboration with the medical community is a rigorous effort to further improve former policies and proposals. CMS and AMA is looking forward for further collaboration together with joint aim of providing high-value care to the patients.