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2019 Final Rule:

MPFS Staggers Rollout of E/M Overhaul

Published on Thu Jan 17, 2019

Look for documentation relief this year. CMS’ 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) follows through with plans to revamp E/M documentation, coding, and payment — just not all at once this year. Instead, the final rule implements some relief for E/M documentation requirements in 2019, but puts off many of the proposed-rule changes until 2021. The final rule “delays … [...]
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