CMS Proposes Pay Rate For Primary-Care Code; Hikes Doctors Influence Over Pay Rates

CMS Proposes Pay Rate For Primary-Care Code; Hikes Doctors Influence Over Pay Rates-insidehealthpolicy: CMS on Thursday (July 3) proposed a physician pay rule that adds important details to the new, primary-physician-backed pay code for managing patients and that gives physicians more influence starting in 2016 over Medicare pay rates. Primary physicians are not paid for many services they provide, said Reid Blackwelder, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, so CMS last year established a code that pays primary care physicians for managing beneficiaries with at least two chronic conditions.