Modern Healthcare March 17, 2018
The CMS is hosting a conference call Wednesday to hear physicians’ opinions on how certain billing codes and procedures can be updated.
Most physicians bill Medicare for patient visits under a relatively generic set of codes that distinguish level of complexity and site of care. They are called evaluation and management visit codes.
As the agency ponders some revisions, physician feedback will help staff figure out how “to reduce burden and better align coding and documentation with the current practice of medicine,” according to a notice for the call. The CMS first announced its intentions to review E/M guidelines for the 2018 Medicare physician fee schedule rule; the call is a follow-up to that announcement. The last significant update to...
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