Healthcare IT News December 31, 2019
The adoption of EHRs and supporting health IT may result in new methods of E/M documentation and coding tech adoption. And these types of E/M coding issues also apply to providers offering telemedicine services.
The American Medical Association issued a checklist for the transition to fundamental changes in evaluation and management (E/M) services, a medical coding process in support of medical billing which practicing healthcare providers must use to be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid programs or private insurance.
The checklist provides a guide for physician practices, which already are grappling with a host of IT-related issues in the areas of revenue cycle management, including robotic process automation to manage revenue cycles.
EHRs and E/M documentation
Meanwhile, the adoption of electronic...