Mark N. Painter, CPMA, MBA and Michael Burnett, COO Kansas City Urology Care, presented “2025 Medicare Part D Changes: Preparing Your Office and Patients” for the Grand Rounds in Urology audience in October 2024.
How to cite: Painter, Mark N., and and Burnett, Michael. “2025 Medicare Part D Changes: Preparing Your Office and Patients.” October 2024. Accessed Nov 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/2025-medicare-part-d-changes-preparing-your-office-and-patients/
2025 Medicare Part D Changes: Preparing Your Office and Patients – Summary
Mark N. Painter, CPMA, MBA, Managing Partner, Consulting LLC, CEO, PRS Urology Service Corporation, Vice President of Coding and Reimbursement Information and CEO Relative Value Studies, Inc. and Michael Burnett, Chief Operating Officer at Kansas City Urology Care, discuss upcoming 2025 Medicare Part D changes.
Michael joins the conversation and expresses his viewpoint on the upcoming changes and how this may affect his office. He then shares how his office works to identify which patients need grants, subsidies, or assistance as well as details the heroic efforts to ensure that these patients get the help they need and how he hopes this will change with the upcoming Medicare Part D changes.
This 12-minute discussion concludes with both Mark and Michael discussing how to best make patients aware and make sure they take advantage of these changes. Michael shares how his office is currently handling these future changes and their plan to notify patients. He emphasizes that education for both patients and urology practices on these updates is the best way to ensure successful adoption of the upcoming Medicare Part D changes. Mark shares a reminder that Open Enrollment begins on October 15, 2024, and runs through December 7, 2024.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark N. Painter is a managing partner of PRS Consulting LLC, the CEO of PRS Urology Service Corporation, the Vice President of Coding and Reimbursement Information for Physician Reimbursement Systems, Inc., and CEO of Relative Value Studies, Inc. Since co-founding PRS in 1989, Mr. Painter has served as the primary coding resource for the PRS products currently produced and marketed in conjunction with 9 National Specialty Organizations including hotlines, coding manuals, and quick reference tools, the internet-based application codingtoday.com, and seminars. He has lectured to a variety of groups concerned with healthcare reimbursement. Mr. Painter’s extensive knowledge of physician documentation, as well as coding and reimbursement issues, has allowed him to assist insurance companies, physicians and their staff members, legal counsel, actuaries, specialty societies, consultants, and the medical industry on a daily basis. Mr. Painter has been the lead for the company on multiple corporate/physician integrity agreements serving as the Independent Review Organization (IRO), and has successfully overseen the review and continued participation in Medicare of several practices from multiple specialties. Mr. Painter has been commended for his education and direction for appropriate documentation and coding by multiple Medicare medical directors with whom he has shared the podium during national and regional medical meetings. He serves as an expert in legal counsel for bio device companies, medical directors, and pharmaceuticals.
Michael Burnett, COO
Michael Burnett is the Chief Operating Officer at Kansas City Urology Care. Michael received his MBA from Avila University in 2002 after receiving a BA in Business Administration and Management from UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management in 1992.
