Sec. 4. Study on documentation requirements for cognitive service
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Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Medicine whereby such National Academy conducts a study, and submits a report to Congress, concerning the documentation requirements for cognitive services (evaluation and management services) required under the Medicare and Medicaid programs under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.; 1396 et seq.), and through private health insurers.
Such study shall include an evaluation of— how documentation requirements designed for paper-based records should be modified for electronic records; whether the documentation requirements are overly burdensome on physicians and detract from patient care; the administrative costs to physician practices of the current documentation requirements; the average amount of time required by physicians to document cognitive services; options to more appropriately compensate physicians for evaluation and management of patient care without requiring excessive documentation of cognitive services; and recommendations for less burdensome alternatives or changes to existing documentation requirements of cognitive services.
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