Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Medicare Turns E/M Coding Upside Down
Published on Sat Aug 12, 2006
Your hospital-based evaluation and management coding could change drastically next year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to replace the existing CPT codes for Emergency Department visits with new -G- codes. The 17 codes will include five levels of hospital clinic visits, five levels of hospital ED visits, and five levels of -Type A emergency visit codes,- for services provided by the ED itself, and two new critical care codes. Next week's PBI will have more coverage of these proposals.
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