Lexology December 9, 2020
Are you prepared for the sweeping changes made to the “traditional” 1995 and 1997 evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines for office and outpatient visit codes you have been accustomed to for two decades?
All CPT changes take effect on January 1, 2021. For E/M, these changes include both definition and guideline revisions aimed to assist our providers in focusing instead on quality patient care, and lowering their stress levels and burn out mentality. The ‘Patients over Paperwork’ initiative developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to decrease administrative tasks placed on providers and high volumes of note bloat due to voluminous bullet point checks and outdated requirements to remember.
Changes
The E/M major...
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