For The Record April, 2020
For years, evaluation and management (E/M) services coding has been based on either the 1995 or the 1997 E/M coding guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA). Over the past two decades, the health care industry recognized that updates were needed, but change can be time consuming and costly, as both physicians and professional coders would require training to learn and implement new rules, coding resources would have to be updated, and many payer policy rules would need to be rewritten or at least edited.
As a result, the E/M guidelines remained fixed, even though many in the industry were dissatisfied with the status quo.
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