If you listen to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization's plans to update evaluation and management (E/M) codes could simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) released updates to its medical codes for 2021 designed to align with a Medicare rule set to take effect in January. Last year, the AMA worked with the Centers ...

Along with a new year, January 1 will usher in watershed changes to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) “Current Procedure Terminology (CPT®) Evaluation and Management (E/M) Office or Other ...

These new coding capabilities will address some of the most common sources of claim denials and revenue loss, Suki said. By ...

Widely-used billing codes have been updated for 2024, including new ones for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines and medications, and new Spanish translations. The American Medical Association ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The AMA released its 2023 CPT code set, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023. The changes include 225 new codes, ...

As previously reported in this post, criminal trials premised on upcoding evaluation and management (E/M) service codes are extremely rare. The Justice Department took that rare step in Maryland in ...

Evaluation and management (E/M) codes are among the major categories of codes that are frequently examined by third-party insurance auditors. Medicare auditors recently have seen many cases in which ...

This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...