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2021 E/M Coding:

Medicare Putting New Prolonged Services Codes to Use

Published on Tue Dec 10, 2019

Here’s the new way to code prolonged services in 2021. In the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule, Medicare made some major decisions that will affect how for the next year. That’s not all: It also spelled out a few changes that won’t go into effect until 2021. One of those changes will affect the way [...]
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