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Spring updates: Evaluation and Management errata

April 12, 2021 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA

It’s hard to believe we are already four months into 2021. Spring is here, which means spring cleaning, yard work, planting flowers and second-quarter updates from the American Medical Association […]

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Focus on E/M services: Independent historian

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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Focus on E/M services: MDM third element

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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Focus on E/M services: MDM second element

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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Focus on E/M services: MDM first element

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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CMS and AMA: 2021 proposed changes to E/M outpatient services

Aug. 14, 2019 / By Barbara Aubry, RN

For those involved in coding and compliance, this is not the first time attempted changes to E/M rules have been proposed. Remember 1995 and 1997? Of course, I’m way too […]