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Get Answers to These After-Hours, Emergency E/M Visit Questions

Published on Mon Dec 16, 2019

Know what to do when a visit extends beyond business hours. Consider a scenario where your otolaryngologist sees a patient after scheduled hours. Consider another instance where scheduled office hours are disrupted due to an emergency encounter with a patient. You should code these sorts of confounding scenarios, and more, using the 99000-99082 series. But before you select the appropriate [...]
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