Colleagues, For years, home care medicine delivered value ahead of recognition. We cared for patients with extraordinary complexity, built longitudinal relationships, and demonstrated outcomes—often while policy and payment lagged behind the work. That gap is finally...
Background CMS realized that E/M payments don’t fully reflect/recognize the complexity of care and comprehensive nature of care that primary care provides. In 2024, CMS introduced an add-on complexity code for office-based practices (but excluded HBPC) With the...
G2211 was introduced in 2024 to reflect the complexity of longitudinal evaluation and management care. However, home visits were originally excluded from its use. Over the past two years, the Academy—through the work of our Public Policy Committee and the support of...
