Watch the clock, documentation rules if you plan on time-based E/M coding in 2021
Starting Jan. 1, 2021, changes to office E/M guidelines will give providers the option to code based on the total time they spend on a patient’s care on the date of service. However, two recent legal actions show that practices will need to count the minutes carefully to avoid improper coding.
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