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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proposed changes to payments for evaluation and management (E/M) codes do not appropriately recognize the value of cognitive care required to treat complex patients, and the proposal should not be ...

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 ...

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 ...

TrailBlazer also cited some obvious errors, such as the reason for encounter was to receive lab results, which doesn’t count as an E/M and also some not so obvious ones, such as that the frequency of ...

Nephrology practices will not see much difference in outpatient dialysis payments from Medicare in 2020, but changes to the program’s merit-based incentive payment system and a change in how acute ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for including proposed reimbursement changes to evaluation and ...