ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

E/M 2023:

CPT® Hits Reset on Inpatient, Observation Codes

Here’s what you’ll use instead of 99217 next year. If you thought the ED codes contained the only changes made to evaluation and management (E/M) coding for 2023 … think again. In a nutshell: As with office/outpatient E/M codes in 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) is changing descriptors for (or outright deleting) several code sets in the other E/M [...]
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