NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hayes Management Consulting announced today that its MDaudit™ software provides an E&M bell curve reporting module that allows healthcare organizations to quickly ...

Saying it could underpay doctors who treat the sickest patients, more than 150 medical groups sent a letter opposing a government plan to consolidate evaluation and management (E/M) codes. In a letter ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this issue, Leffert talks with Susan R. Bailey, MD, president of the AMA, about the new evaluation and ...

Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a ...

Doctors spoke, and CMS listened—delaying any changes to codes for Medicare patient visits until 2021. While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services moved ahead with parts of its plan to ...

These are just a few examples of hospitals experiencing a startling rate of growth of high-intensity E/M services during the last few years. According to an analysis by The Times, the volume of Level ...

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 ...

CMS has finalized the Physician Fee Schedule for 2019, pushing back a controversial flattening of E/M codes to 2021 after a backlash from providers and physicians. The rule also cuts some E/M ...