Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused

Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused

In my years as an ICU nurse, I learned to recognize a pattern. The patients I cared for in trauma surgical intensive care often arrived after a cascade of preventable events. A missed medication. A symptom that went unaddressed. A follow-up appointment that never happened. By the time they reached my unit, the question was Read more… Patients pay when Medicare care coordination codes go unused originally appeared in KevinMD.com.