In 2024, Medicare cut every physician’s rates about 2 percent to fund a code that 3 out of 4 of them never billed. The cut was automatic. The code has to be claimed by hand.
The code is G2211. CMS calls it a visit complexity add-on. In plain words, it pays for office visits where you are the patient’s ongoing doctor, either as the continuing focal point for all their care …
Physicians paid for G2211 twice. Most never bill it.
Roughly half of American children receive their health care through Medicaid or CHIP. These programs were legislated to cover them, and the choice has been made (repeatedly, across decades and both parties) not to fund them at the level their aims require. Pediatricians did not make that choice and should not stop saying it is the wrong one.
However, that choice, and the confines it creates, defines the real-world conditions …
Medicaid managed care and the case for mutual stewardship
Every caregiver of someone with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder knows this moment: Someone you love is in crisis, and at some point (because it’s 2 a.m., because the on-call line is busy, because you don’t know what else to do) you open a browser or a chat window and type the question directly. What crisis resources are there for psychosis? What crisis resources are there for mania?
Those two questions aren’t …
Why AI crisis advice may fail families facing psychosis
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