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E/M Coding:

Keep Hospital Care Codes in Their Own Category

Published on Tue May 04, 2021

Use 1 set of codes for initial hospital care. There’s been a ton of attention paid to the revised office/ outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes in 2021; so much so that it might affect how sharp your coding skills are for other E/M services. Know this: While office/outpatient E/M codes have new descriptors, the other E/M codes do not. [...]
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