BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 4

Overview of AMAs E&M Revisions for 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving quickly on its strategies for outpatient office evaluation and management (E&M) services, targeted for implementation in 2021, and the American Medical Association (AMA) is working hard to try and keep up. Many who read the final rule for 2019 noted the E&M changes to be implemented in 2021 for the office/outpatient code set 99201-99215 and scoffed (myself included) that this would probably be much like ICD-10: an issue that gets kicked around a few years before final implementation.Well, we (again, myself included) appear to be wrong...

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