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Keep Your ED Coding on the Level With This Advice

Published on Thu Jan 23, 2020

MI, trauma cases don’t always add up to 99285. When a reader recently asked us whether all trauma and myocardial infarction (MI) encounters in the emergency department (ED) should be coded with a high-level E/M code such as 99285 (Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management of a patient …) because of their emergent nature, we got to wondering: does the [...]
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