BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 3

Five Changes in CPT® Coding to Know Before 2021

Busy physicians like you have long been asking CMS to revise and simplify its laborious E/M documentation requirements.On January 1, 2021, changes in CPT® coding will take effect that grants those requests. The changes don't include the radical overhaul of documenting and reimbursing office and outpatient visits CMS proposed in 2018, but they should dramatically reduce the time doctors spend doing paperwork (physical or digital). Physicians seeing 20 patients a day, for example, should have about 42 minutes more a day for patient care, according to an AAPC report of an AMA study. And the changes should also...

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