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Prolonged Services:

Add One More Step to Your Billing Workflow to Appease CMS

Published on Mon Aug 23, 2021

Hint: You cannot add prolonged service codes to service levels calculated by medical decision making. You know prolonged service coding got extra wonky in December 2020, when the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). You were left trying to navigate the CPT® prolonged services as well as the CMS created code. Are you [...]
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