The Past, Present, and Future of E&M Services

ICD10monitor June 13, 2022
Shannon DeConda CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CMSCS, CPMA®

Providers are currently stuck with outdated templates, leaving plenty of room for improvement.

I thought it might be appropriate to take a “four score and seven years ago” look across evaluation and management (E&M) services, looking at what we had, what we have, and what is still to come.

So, to begin, I will rewind the clock to pre-Johnny Depp-and-Amber-Heard-trial days, back to before the implementation of 2021 documentation guideline (DG) changes – and so, for most of you reading, this is your current world.

Your providers are, well, kind of stuck here. They are using templates in eClincalWorks Solution (eCW) or EPIC or CERNER that were created for archaic office-based DG demands that are no longer required. History of...

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