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Risk of the Complications for Patient Management and Treatment for Provider Consults

2021 E&M Changes, E/M Coding & Auditing, Shannon DeCondaBy NAMAS April 2, 2022

April 4, 2022 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Today, I want to bring you a little educational tidbit on E&M documentation improvement and how to audit those challenging sections of E&M. We’re going to take a look at the third column of our MDM table, the Risk of Complications for…

How (and when) to credit “Decision Regarding Hospitalization”

2021 E&M Changes, E/M Coding & Auditing, Scott KraftBy NAMAS January 29, 2021

January 29, 2021 | By Scott Kraft, CPMA, CPC One of the big changes in the new E/M Documentation Guidelines for 2021 for office and outpatient service codes 99202-99215 is the new high-risk category of “Decision Regarding Hospitalization.” As an auditor, the first thing I thought about were the situations in which a very…

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