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Committee approves 5% physician E&M raise now, asks DHS to return with additional plan
Summary
After an hours-long debate over data, actuary inputs and fiscal impact, the committee approved DHS's 5% increase to physician evaluation-and-management codes and adopted a motion asking DHS to return before January with consideration of the additional 3% recommended by stakeholders.
The Senate panel reviewed a DHS proposal to raise physician evaluation-and-management (E&M) reimbursement codes by 5% and debated whether to adopt a larger increase recommended by providers.
Janet Mann, director of medical services at DHS, told the committee the administration used a contracted actuary (Milliman) and internal staff analysis to develop the recommendations. "We proposed splitting it between the evaluation…
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