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Proposed MPFS Explores Comment Areas Regarding E/M Documentation Guidelines

Published on Tue Sep 26, 2017

CMS considers making MDM and/or time main factor in determining E/M visit levels. In the 2018 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), CMS will explore the idea of revising the 1995 and 1997 Evaluation and Management (E/M) Documentation Guidelines. Both the 1995 and 1997 Documentation Guidelines are "administratively burdensome and outdated with respect to the practice of medicine," stakeholders have [...]
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