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After years of payment cuts based on the controversial two-midnight rule, CMS is finally giving hospitals a break in its 2017 hopsital payments fonal rule.

Providers working in more than a dozen markets are now eligible to apply for an advanced primary care model that will dole out up to $100 per patient, per month in upfront payments.
Providers will see a 3.4% pay increase when performing chronic care management (CCM) services next year, and they'll gain a reimbursement channel for "complex" CCM.
 

If your practice is in a mandatory bundled payment model, such as the Comprehensive Care of Joint Replacement (CJR), you may qualify to receive incentives as an advanced alternative payment model (APM).

It's not uncommon for medical publishers to try and muscle in on fads that seem to have nothing to do with anything, but Pokemon Go has inspired a ton of possibly specious health care tie-ins -- including one for ICD-10 codes.

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