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CPT® 2013:

Pay Attention to E/M Verbiage Tweaks That Affect Your NPPs

Published on Wed Sep 12, 2012

Nearly every E/M code descriptor gets a facelift on January 1.Evaluation and management codes are a part of nearly every practice's billing, whether you're billing office visit codes, inpatient hospital codes, consultation codes, or any of the other many E/M codes. CPT® 2013 will revise nearly every code descriptor in the E/M code section. We'll review the changes to both sections so you'll be ready as soon as Jan. 1, 2013 rolls around.Eliminate 'Physician' Limitations From Your E/M Code ThinkingWhereas most E/M codes previously referred to "physicians" and "providers" in their descriptors, that will change effective Jan.1, when the descriptors will instead say "qualified health care professionals."Using 99213 as an example, the code changes are indicated with the strikethroughs (indicating deleted text) and underlining (indicating new text) as follows: Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, which requires at least 2 of these [...]
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