{"title":"Continuity Matters: Financial Impact of the G2211 Code in Primary Care.","authors":"Chrystal Pristell, Hoon Byun, Jeongyoung Park","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family medicine is financially undervalued compared with other medical specialties, and reimbursement fails to recognize the valuable longitudinal care provided to patients. According to one estimate, a primary care physician earns approximately $80,000 less than a subspecialist peer in Medicare reimbursement over a one-year period.1 This gap persists despite primary care physicians addressing higher numbers of medical concerns during office visits. To address continuity, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the G2211 code in 2019 to compensate for the \"visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services.\"2 The G2211 code was implemented in January 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":7713,"journal":{"name":"American family physician","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American family physician","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Family medicine is financially undervalued compared with other medical specialties, and reimbursement fails to recognize the valuable longitudinal care provided to patients. According to one estimate, a primary care physician earns approximately $80,000 less than a subspecialist peer in Medicare reimbursement over a one-year period.1 This gap persists despite primary care physicians addressing higher numbers of medical concerns during office visits. To address continuity, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services created the G2211 code in 2019 to compensate for the "visit complexity inherent to evaluation and management associated with medical care services."2 The G2211 code was implemented in January 2024.
期刊介绍：
American Family Physician is a semimonthly, editorially independent, peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. AFP’s chief objective is to provide high-quality continuing medical education for more than 190,000 family physicians and other primary care clinicians. The editors prefer original articles from experienced clinicians who write succinct, evidence-based, authoritative clinical reviews that will assist family physicians in patient care. AFP considers only manuscripts that are original, have not been published previously, and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles that demonstrate a family medicine perspective on and approach to a common clinical condition are particularly desirable.
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