RevCycle Intelligence January 6, 2020
The checklist gives physician practice tips on how to manage E/M coding and documentation changes in order to maximize burden relief.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently issued a checklist for physician practices to use when adopting evaluation and management (E/M) coding and documentation changes slated to take effect next year.
Consistent with their end goal to reduce burden, CMS looked to align their E/M coding with changes adopted by the AMA. CMS ultimately walked back plans to collapse E/M codes and payments rates, instead opting to retain five separate levels and payment rates for E/M visits for established patients. In addition, they reduced the number of levels to four for new patients.
Initially, the federal agency finalized the E/M...
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