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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert

Medication Assisted Treatment:

Tighten Your Documentation to Collect for MAT

Published on Wed Mar 10, 2021

EDs can now bring in reimbursement for medication-assisted treatment. When patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) present to the ED, clinicians may choose to treat them with medications like suboxone or buprenorphine. Although it was challenging to get paid for these medication assisted treatment (MAT) visits in the past, that all changed when the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) [...]
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