This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

Evaluation and management coding changes: What organizations need to know Colleen Goethals, vice president of mid-revenue cycle at Xtend, spoke with Melissa Caswell, director of coding audits and ...

Most healthcare players agree the evaluation and management billing codes used by CMS need an overhaul, but few like the manner to do so proposed by the agency. Some specialists are calling for the ...

To select a level of an E/M service, two of the three elements of MDM must be met or exceeded. Q: How do you select an E/M code for an outpatient visit based on documentation of medical ...

If you listen to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization's plans to update evaluation and management (E/M) codes could simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to ...

With a two-year delay on implementation of a new coding and payment structure for Medicare patients’ office visits, physician groups say they hope to work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

Along with a new year, January 1 will usher in watershed changes to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) “Current Procedure Terminology (CPT®) Evaluation and Management (E/M) Office or Other ...