Association of Time-Based Billing With Evaluation and Management Revenue for Outpatient Visits.

Importance: Time-based billing options for physicians have expanded, enabling many physicians to bill according to time spent instead of medical decision-making (MDM) level for fee-for-service outpatient visits. However, no study to date has estimated the revenue changes associated with time-based billing.

Objective: To compare evaluation and management (E/M) reimbursement for physicians using time-based billing vs MDM-based billing for outpatient visits of varying lengths.

The Productivity Requirements of Implementing a Medical Scribe Program.

Background: Economic analyses of medical scribes have been limited to individual, specialty-specific clinics.

Objective: To determine the number of additional patient visits various specialties would need to recover the costs of implementing scribes in their practice at 1 year.

Design: Modeling study based on 2015 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.