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Use This Insight to Pick the Correct Inpatient Codes

Published on Mon Apr 04, 2022

Question: We are revisiting our coding policies and wondered about choosing the right E/M codes for inpatient care. Do we use the same criteria as we do for choosing outpatient E/M services? Louisiana Subscriber Answer: No. Even though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant strides in updating outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes in 2021, those changes didn’t [...]
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