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Is Your Coding Cognition Current? Take Our 2019 Year-in-Review Quiz
The answers to these 4 questions will help you look back, forward to 2020 and beyond. Do you remember the important coding changes that occurred in 2019? If you do, then you’ll have no problem acing this end-of-year quiz. And if you don’t, maybe these questions will jog your memory and help you get ready for the challenges that await you in the New Year. So, get out your old copies of Pediatric Coding Alert and a pad and pen, and let’s get started. Question 1: On Jan. 1, 2019, CPT® deleted one code and added three new codes for documenting the collection of a patient’s physiologic data. What were the codes, and what do the new codes allow you to do? Question 2: In November 2018, the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule announced several steps to reduce the amount of paperwork needed to document evaluation and management (E/M) services, effective January 1, 2019. What were those changes? Question 3: In August 2019, CPT® announced that it was going to delete two online E/M services and replace them with six new codes effective January 1, 2020. What were the codes, and what restrictions are going to be placed on them? Think you know the answers?
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