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Don’t Put off Understanding Prolonged Services Codes any Longer

Here’s why you cannot add prolonged service codes to service levels calculated by MDM. Coding for prolonged services became even more confusing in late 2020, when the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). Needless to say, it caused some confusion; coders were left trying to navigate the CPT® prolonged services as [...]
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