PALTC23 Conference Recordings TH15 Coding Changes That Impact Your PALTC Practice

Coding Changes That Impact Your PALTC Practice

This session will provide an overview of the revised evaluation and management criteria, including the medical decision-making tables. In addition, this session will provide an overview of codes beyond the usual nursing home set and how they may be appropriate for your practice. Advance care planning, chronic care management, complex chronic care management, non-face-to-face prolonged services, behavioral health integration, and other codes that have been established since 2016 will be examined. This session will provide examples of how and when to use these codes as the payment system moves from volume to value based. It also will cover the latest changes proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for evaluation and management services.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the improvement in payment for care management services by CMS.
  • Describe the new codes that allow reporting of additional evaluation and management services.
  • Discuss how these codes have the potential to improve patient care.
  • Discuss CMS proposed changes to evaluation and management service codes.

Charles Crecelius, MD, PhD, CMD

Charles Crecelius, MD, PhD, CMD, is the Medical Director, Post-Acute Care Services for BJC Medical Group, an over 600 provider, 12 associated hospital multispecialty group in the Greater St Louis area. He is also a multi-facility medical director for Delmar Gardens Enterprises, and Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Washington University School of Medicine. He helped found the St Louis Post-Acute and Long Term Care Roundtable, which brings together nursing homes, hospital systems and other stakeholders to improve the quality and transitions of care of nursing home residents in a service area of over 3 million persons. He is a Past President of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, was their 2019 Medical Director of the Year. and represents the Society at the AMA Relative Vallue Update Committee.

Robert Zorowitz, MD, MBA, CMD, FACP, AGSF

Robert Zorowitz, MD, MBA, CMD, FACP, AGSF, is Regional Vice President, Health Affairs, for the Northeast Region at Humana. A graduate of Albany Medical College, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He received his MBA from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Hospice/Palliative Medicine and is a Certified Medical Director in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care.  During his career, he was an attending physician or medical director at a variety of nursing facilities of varying sizes in the Atlanta and Metro New York city areas.  For the last 15 years, he has been the American Geriatrics Society Advisor to the American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel.  As part of that work, he was a member of the working group that revised the CPT Evaluation and Management code descriptors.  

  • 1.75 CME
  • 1.75 CMD Management
  • 1.75 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.75 management hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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