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Prolonged Services:

MUE Takes Back Some Non-Face-to-Face Pay

Published on Tue Jun 13, 2017

Limit billed time to 2 hours. If you started taking advantage of billing your surgeon’s non-face-to-face work since CMS paved a path for doing so effective Jan. 1, get ready to roll back that practice. Backstory: In the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule, CMS pledged separate payments for some E/M services that fell under CPT® codes 99358(Prolonged [...]
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