EM Coding Alert

Knowledge Check:

Evaluate Your Preventive Care Coding Knowledge

Hint: POS may not affect ‘new’ patient status. Compare your knowledge of preventive medicine evaluation and management (E/M) service coding to what experts would do. These two scenarios present situations where coders would need to evaluate what constitutes an abnormal finding in a preventive E/M encounter, and how to report the encounter on the whole. Scenario 1: Your pediatrician examines [...]
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