CMS Corrects Payment Error for Rural Health Clinics & Federally Qualified Health Centers
September 4, 2025
August 28, 2025 — CMS Announcement The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an important update impacting Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Since January 1, 2025, claims for care coordination services were being incorrectly reimbursed. CMS has now confirmed the error has...
Case Study: How Chronic Care Management Reduces ER Visits and Improves Outcomes
September 2, 2025
Emergency room visits are costly, disruptive, and often preventable. For one Southeast U.S. primary care clinic, partnering with Chronic Care Staffing to implement a Chronic Care Management (CCM) program led to: 60% reduction in ER visits within 6 months Lower readmission rates among high-risk patients Increased patient satisfaction and engagement...
How to Seamlessly Integrate CCM and RPM Into Your Existing Workflow
September 2, 2025
Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) each offer significant benefits in managing chronic diseases. However, their combined power becomes transformational when integrated into existing clinical workflows. This guide walks you through practical implementation, based on recent evidence and forward-looking strategies, while keeping your workflow streamlined and compliant....
Key 2026 Medicare Proposed Rule Changes for Care Management
September 2, 2025
Overview CMS has released its 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule, and the direction is clear: virtual care management is here to stay. The proposals touch multiple areas of chronic and remote care, including Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM), Behavioral Health Integration (BHI), and new...
Medicare Health Risk Assessment 2025: Everything You Need to Know
September 2, 2025
Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) play a pivotal role in the Medicare landscape, serving as foundational elements of preventive care, care planning, and risk adjustment. As we move deeper into 2025, HRAs remain central, but the dynamics around them are shifting. Here’s a comprehensive, state-of-the-art update on what practitioners, care organizations,...
Beyond the Dashboard: Real-Time Prescriptive Paths in Value-Based Care
September 2, 2025
Value-Based Care (VBC) has transformed how providers think about outcomes, costs, and patient satisfaction. Yet despite a decade of dashboards, reports, and predictive analytics, the healthcare industry often finds itself looking backward instead of moving forward. What if data didn’t just measure but actively guided care in real time? That’s...
RPM vs. CCM: 5 Key Differences Explained
July 28, 2025
Helping Providers Understand the Tools of Value-Based Care As healthcare shifts away from volume and toward value, programs like Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) have become vital tools for delivering proactive, personalized care to Medicare patients. While they are often discussed together, and can work hand-in-hand,...
Healthcare Provider’s Guide to Value-Based Care
July 24, 2025
How to Navigate the Shift and Thrive in a Changing Landscape Healthcare is no longer just about providing services - it’s about delivering outcomes. As reimbursement models continue to shift, providers are being asked to balance quality care with financial sustainability. Enter value-based care (VBC): a system that rewards providers...
Medicare Annual Wellness Visit vs. Annual Physical: What’s the Real Difference?
July 20, 2025
When patients hear “Annual Wellness Visit” and “Annual Physical,” they often assume they’re interchangeable. Both sound like routine check-ups, both are yearly, and both involve a conversation with a provider. But under Medicare guidelines, these two visits serve very different purposes - and mistaking one for the other can lead...
Chronic Care Staffing is Celebrating 10 Years of Leadership
July 15, 2025
August 2015 – August 2025 Chronic Care Staffing® (CCS) celebrates a decade of unwavering commitment to improving patient outcomes and driving value-based care across the country. What began in August 2015 with a bold vision to transform remote patient services has grown into a nationally recognized leader in Chronic Care...
