‘System failure, not physician failure’: PCPs lose thousands in revenue to coding, billing

Primary care physicians lose about $40,000 of revenue each year because they provide preventive services that they do not then code and bill, according to study findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues to play a massive role in how PCPs are paid, “despite the proliferation of alternative payment models,” Sumit D. Agarwal, MD, MPH, of the division of general internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote.
Critical elements of continuous, comprehensive

Primary care physicians lose about $40,000 of revenue each year because they provide preventive services that they do not then code and bill, according to study findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues to play a massive role in how PCPs are paid, “despite the proliferation of alternative payment models,” Sumit D. Agarwal, MD, MPH, of the division of general internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote.
Critical elements of continuous, comprehensive