初级保健医生对CMS影响的看法 E/M编码变化和与EHR时间变化的关联
Natalya Maisel1, Robert Thombley2, Christine A Sinsky3
1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Natalya.Maisel@ucsf.edu.
Journal of general internal medicine
|February 18, 2025
概括
初级保健医生 (PCP) 在2021年医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心 (CMS) 变更后感觉到减少了文件处理时间. 然而,感知到的时间节省与客观的电子健康数据没有相关性,这表明政策影响评估存在差距.
科学领域:
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
- 医生文档 医生的文档
背景情况:
- 2021年,医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心 (CMS) 修订了门诊评估和管理 (E/M) 文档要求,以减轻医生负担.
- 之前的研究还没有调查初级保健医生 (PCP) 对这些监管调整影响的观点.
研究的目的:
- 评估医生是否主观地感知和客观地经历了2021年CMS E/M文档更改后的文档时间减少.
- 评估医生感知与记录时间的客观措施之间的对齐.
主要方法:
- 一种混合方法的方法,将一个大型学术医疗中心 (UCSF Health) 87名PCP的横截面和纵向调查数据结合起来.
- 调查数据与电子健康记录 (EHR) 审计日志数据联系在一起,以比较感知到的记录时间与每次E / M遭遇的实际时间.
- 实施前和后的调查捕捉了医生对记录时间和努力变化的看法.
主要成果:
- 显著的大多数PCP (84%) 报告说,在E/M编码更改后,对系统文档的审查所花费的时间有中度到显著的减少.
- 41%的PCP认为,花在病史和体检文档上的时间减少了.
- 医生报告说,他们开始花更多的时间研究具有临床意义的文档.
- 对于系统审查或当前疾病和体检史的记录时间的感知和实际变化之间没有发现统计学上显著的关联.
结论:
- 在2021年CMS E/M编码政策变化之后,PCP感知到文件编写时间和工作量减少.
- 医生对减少文档负担的看法可能与节省时间的客观措施没有直接关联.
- 医生的看法是一个有价值的,但不是唯一的指标,用于评估旨在减少医疗保健行政负担的联邦政策的影响.
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