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Oct. 24, 2022 / By Jean Jones, CPC, Cecilia Charles, RHIA
Evaluation and Management (E/M) services is our favorite topic to blog about. Our team submitted a blog prior to the new 2021 changes that was about the new guidelines at […]
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Oct. 14, 2022 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
My goal each week over the next few months is to focus in on one evaluation and management (E/M) category, taking a deeper dive into the revisions and guideline changes. […]
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Aug. 29, 2022 / By Jean Jones, CPC
At my yearly physical exam, my doctor and I talked about work, skiing next season and of course COVID-19. The chit chat always helps me get ready with my medical […]
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Jan. 25, 2021 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
New year, new month, new changes to documentation and coding for outpatient office visit codes 99202-99205 and 99211-99215. If it feels like you have been inundated with information and updates […]
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Dec. 21, 2020 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
As we continue our Evaluation and Management (E/M) blog series on the revisions to E/M services for Office and Other Outpatient Services for New and Established patients, I want to […]
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Dec. 11, 2020 / By Allison Morgan, MS, CPC
In our ongoing Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have delved into several sweeping changes coming to Office or Other Outpatient E/M Services in 2021. Let’s shift our attention […]
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Dec. 4, 2020 / By Jean Jones, CPC
So far in our Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have gone over changes related to medical decision making (MDM), specifically changes to the first, second, and third elements. […]
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Nov. 18, 2020 / By Kelly Long, BS, CPC, CPCO, CAPM, Jean Jones, CPC, Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
So far in our E/M blog series, we have covered the first and second element of medical decision making (MDM). Today we will cover changes to the third and final […]
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Nov. 13, 2020 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
I have been anxiously waiting for my 2021 CPT book to arrive and it finally did last Friday! Since attending the American Medical Association’s CPT Symposium last November and having […]
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Nov. 6, 2020 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
In this next blog post in our blog series focused on the new E/M guidelines, I’m going to focus on Medical Decision Making (MDM), which along with Time, is a […]
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Oct. 26, 2020 / By Danielle Pavloski
We are only a few months away from the new Evaluation and Management (E/M) changes being implemented. The American Medical Association (AMA) officially released the new E/M guidelines and changes […]
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Oct. 16, 2020 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
For much of 2020, HIM and CDI professionals have been focused on COVID-19 and understanding how the temporary waivers for medical care delivery and payment impact documentation and coding. We […]