EM Coding Alert

Emergency Department:

Here’s Why You Should Disregard the 2021 E/M Updates for These ED Services

Don’t bother with prolonged service coding in the ED. If your provider goes back and forth between an office practice and working in a hospital, you may need to follow two trains of thought when coding. While the descriptors, and rules, for reporting office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes changed dramatically in 2021, services for the emergency department (ED) largely [...]
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