AMA survey shows impact of consult code elimination
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The American Medical Association recently released the results of a new survey showing that Medicare's elimination of consultation codes has had a negative impact on physician efforts to improve care coordination and reduced the treatment options available to Medicare patients.
The survey of 5,500 physicians also showed that many have taken cost-cutting steps to offset revenue losses from the elimination of these codes. Highlights of the survey are available on the AMA website.
Prior to the release of the survey results, ACP joined with the AMA and other physician organizations in sending a letter requesting that CMS improve its policy. The College continues to look for opportunities to work with internal medicine subspecialty organizations to find viable solutions to this problem.