HIT Consultant July 7, 2023
What You Should Know:
- In 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented changes to evaluation and management (E/M) CPT billing codes aimed to reduce the administrative documentation burden on providers.
- Epic Research just came out with a new study that shows the average length of clinical notes has continued to increase over the last three years.
Understanding Why Clinical Notes Remain ‘Bloated’
The study evaluated 1.7 billion clinical notes written by 166,318 outpatient providers in the U.S. from May 2020 to April 2023 to determine the average length in characters for each note. It found that even though average note length increased, most providers spent less time writing notes, which could help providers free up...
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