%0 Journal Article
%T Hospital Medicine Has a Specialty Code. Is the Memo Still in the Mail?
%A Bradley Flansbaum
%A DO
%A MPH
%A Joshua Lapps
%A MA
%A Luci Leykum
%A MD
%A MBA
%A MSc
%J Journal of Hospital Medicine
%D 2020
%R 10.12788/jhm.3303
%X The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded Hospital Medicine a Medicare specialty code, ¡°C6¡±, in 2016. We examined the early uptake of C6 code using the 2017 Medicare Part B utilization data. We also compared the actual C6 specialty code usage against estimated rates of overall hospitalist billing using threshold-based hospitalist rates of Evaluation and Management codes to assess the integration of the newly introduced code. Billing activity associated with the C6 code was approximately one-tenth of expected rates
%U https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed/article/208013/hospital-medicine/hospital-medicine-has-specialty-code-memo-still-mail