Short, practical updates on chronic care management workflows.
Yes, Medicare allows qualifying Chronic Care Management and Remote Patient Monitoring services to be billed concurrently in 2026 when each service independently meets its requirements and the same time or effort is not counted twice.
Use this 2026 Advanced Primary Care Management documentation checklist to review G0556, G0557, and G0558 eligibility, consent, initiating visits, care plans, 24/7 access, care transitions, communication, population management, and performance requirements.
Compare Advanced Primary Care Management and Chronic Care Management in 2026, including G0556, G0557, G0558, CCM CPT codes, time requirements, patient eligibility, care plans, consent, staffing, and Medicare billing differences.
Learn how HCPCS G0506 works in 2026, including when it may be added to a Chronic Care Management initiating visit, practitioner requirements, extensive assessment and care planning, documentation examples, and common billing mistakes.
Learn how CPT 99487 works in 2026, including the 60-minute Complex Chronic Care Management requirement, moderate- or high-complexity medical decision-making, eligibility, care-plan requirements, CPT 99489, documentation, and billing rules.
Learn how CPT 99491 works in 2026, including the 30-minute practitioner requirement, CCM eligibility, care-plan and consent requirements, add-on code 99437, documentation examples, and concurrent billing rules.
Learn how CPT 99490 works in 2026, including Medicare CCM eligibility, the first 20 minutes of clinical staff time, patient consent, care-plan requirements, qualifying activities, documentation, add-on code 99439, and common billing mistakes.
Learn how CPT 99439 works in 2026, including its relationship to CPT 99490, the additional 20-minute CCM requirement, qualifying clinical staff activities, practitioner time, documentation, and common billing mistakes.
Learn which Chronic Care Management activities may count toward Medicare CCM time in 2026, including care coordination, medication management, care-plan work, referrals, patient communication, and common activities that should not be automatically counted.
Build a Medicare-aligned Chronic Care Management care plan with this practical 2026 framework, including goals, interventions, medications, care coordination, monitoring, and documentation examples.
Learn how CPT 99470 works in 2026, including the 10-minute RPM treatment-management threshold, interactive communication requirement, and how it differs from CPT 99457.
HCPCS G0511 is no longer the care-management billing pathway for RHCs and FQHCs. Learn what changed, how individual care-management codes are used, and what practices should review in 2026.