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Understand How Outpatient E/M Codes Work

Published on Mon Jan 18, 2021

Question: Our urgent care center saw a patient who was 8 months old for an upper respiratory infection. Under the 2021 office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines, can a parent be regarded as an independent historian for an infant patient and, if so, does that fulfill the requirements for category 2 in the data element when calculating the level of [...]
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