Exciting Updates on Continued Evaluation and Management Changes for 2023

HMP Global September 22, 2022
Jeffrey D. Lehrman, DPM, FASPS, CPC

The process by which office and other outpatient evaluation and management (E&M) levels (CPT® 99202 – 99215) are selected was changed by the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT® Editorial Panel effective January 1, 2021.^[1] This welcome change resulted in the removal of barriers that made it difficult for some specialists to reach higher level office and other outpatient E&M levels. Effective January 1, 2023,^[2] under the guidance of the AMA CPT Editorial Panel, these same changes will also be applied to the method used to select the level of these E&M service types:

• Hospital Inpatient and Observation Care
• Consultation
• Emergency Department
• Nursing Facility
• Home or Residence

With this change, one will select the levels of office or other...

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