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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The largest US physician group on Tuesday released what it described as the first major overhaul in more than 25 years of billing codes used for many office visits. AMA said the changes to CPT codes ...

A number of services in the E/M category are on track for big pay gains in CY 2024, led by behavioral health care management (99484), set for a 26% jump to $54 per service, and joined by two prolonged ...