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Understand How MPFS Clarifies E/M Code Billing

Published on Mon Mar 20, 2023

Report 99291 with critical illness or injury. The most recent Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule included an important clarification on billing critical illness or injury. While most hospital/inpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services received revised descriptors in 2023, critical care stood fast. The definitions for 99291 (Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill or critically injured [...]
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