Fierce Health Payers September 1, 2020
The American Medical Association (AMA) released updates to its medical codes for 2021 designed to align with a Medicare rule set to take effect in January.
Last year, the AMA worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify evaluation and management (E/M) office/outpatient visit code changes, which marked the first overhaul of E/M office visit documentation and coding in more than 25 years.
The changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes ranging from 99201-99215 are proposed for adoption by CMS on Jan. 1, 2021.
The updates to medicine’s common language aim to reduce documentation requirements for clinicians and free physicians and care teams from clinically irrelevant administrative burdens that led to time-wasting note bloat and box...
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