DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2019 Issue 3 (March)

Understanding E/M: Practices yawn at documentation tweaks, may use monitoring codes

The editors of Part B News, sibling publication to APCPS, surveyed readers and interviewed experts to come up with coding predictions that will affect physician practices in 2019.
 
Prediction: The E/M documentation revisions will have little meaningful impact. Heading into 2019, medical practices will find a few tweaks to the sanctioned documentation process for office visits. For instance, a mid-level practitioner can record a patient’s history or chief complaint, and the physician or non-physician practitioner (NPP) won’t have to re-enter the information in the medical record.

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