Add it up: Latest E/M update clarifies how to calculate data
Remind practitioners to document — and coders to count — each medical decision-making (MDM) Category 1 item for data review with care. Recent guidance makes it clear that you have a number of ways meet the requirements for the “amount and/or complexity of data to be reviewed and analyzed” element for E/M office visits that are coded based on MDM.
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