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How Should You Report Low-Level New Patient E/M Codes in 2021?

Published on Fri Oct 09, 2020

Question: We are finally getting around to training our staff on how the outpatient E/M codes will change in 2021 and we have received a few questions from our staff members. One of them is about the deletion of code 99201. If it’s going away, how will we report level 1 new patient E/M visits in January? Alabama Subscriber Answer: [...]
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