To help specialty practices prepare for changes to evaluation/management office-visit guidelines and pay rates, DecisionHealth will host three virtual summits, the healthcare news source announced Oct ...

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

CMS’ final rule released Nov. 1 includes changes to the billing and coding requirements for evaluation and management services, Health Data Management reports. Effective Jan. 1, CMS’ E/M coding ...

The American Medical Association issued a checklist for the transition to fundamental changes in evaluation and management (E/M) services, a medical coding process in support of medical billing which ...

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 ...

BOCA RATON, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading healthcare technology vendor Modernizing Medicine® today announced that the company’s electronic health records (EHR) systems, EMA and gGastro EHR, are ready ...

The service must be performed for a condition unrelated to the scheduled visit and must be a new condition that requires further evaluation. Q: Is it appropriate to report an E/M code for visit ...

Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...

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) ...