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January 25th, 2021 / By Karla VonEschen, CPC, CPMA
New year, new month, new changes to documentation and coding for outpatient office visit codes 99202-99205 and 99211-99215. If it feels like you have been inundated with information and updates […]
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December 21st, 2020 / By Colleen Deighan, RHIA
As we continue our Evaluation and Management (E/M) blog series on the revisions to E/M services for Office and Other Outpatient Services for New and Established patients, I want to […]
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December 11th, 2020 / By Allison Morgan, MS, CPC
In our ongoing Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have delved into several sweeping changes coming to Office or Other Outpatient E/M Services in 2021. Let’s shift our attention […]
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December 4th, 2020 / By Jean Jones, CPC
So far in our Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have gone over changes related to medical decision making (MDM), specifically changes to the first, second, and third elements. […]
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November 18th, 2020 / By Kelly Long, CPC, CPCO, Jean Jones, CPC, Karla VonEschen, CPC, CPMA
So far in our E/M blog series, we have covered the first and second element of medical decision making (MDM). Today we will cover changes to the third and final […]
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November 13th, 2020 / By Colleen Deighan, RHIA
I have been anxiously waiting for my 2021 CPT book to arrive and it finally did last Friday! Since attending the American Medical Association’s CPT Symposium last November and having […]
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November 6th, 2020 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
In this next blog post in our blog series focused on the new E/M guidelines, I’m going to focus on Medical Decision Making, which along with Time, is a key […]
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October 26th, 2020 / By Danielle Pavloski
We are only a few months away from the new Evaluation and Management (E/M) changes being implemented. The American Medical Association (AMA) officially released the new E/M guidelines and changes […]
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October 16th, 2020 / By Colleen Deighan, RHIA
For much of 2020, HIM and CDI professionals have been focused on COVID-19 and understanding how the temporary waivers for medical care delivery and payment impact documentation and coding. We […]