Differences in the Complexity of Office Visits by Physician Specialty: NAMCS 2013-2016.

Journal of General Internal Medicine
John D GoodsonZirui Song

Abstract

Specialty-to-specialty variation in use of outpatient evaluation and management service codes could lead to important differences in reimbursement among specialties. To compare the complexity of visits to physicians whose incomes are largely dependent on evaluation and management services to the complexity of visits to physicians whose incomes are largely dependent on procedures. We analyzed 53,670 established patient outpatient visits reported by physicians in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) from 2013 to 2016. We defined high complexity visits as those with an above average number of diagnoses (> 2) and/or medications (> 3) listed We based our comparison on time intervals corresponding to typical outpatient evaluation and management times as defined by the Current Procedural Terminology Manual and specialty utilization of evaluation and management codes based on 2015 Medicare payments. Proportion of complex visits by specialty category. We found significant differences in the content of similar-length office visits provided by different specialties. For level 4 established outpatient visits (99214), the percentage involving high diagnostic complexity ranged from 62% for internal medicine, 52% for family med...Continue Reading

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