tci E/M Coding Alert - 2021 Issue Q4

Emergency Department: Here’s Why You Should Disregard the 2021 E/M Updates for These ED Services

Don’t bother with prolonged service coding in the ED. If your provider goes back and forth between an office practice and working in a hospital, you may need to follow two trains of thought when coding. While the descriptors, and rules, for reporting office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes changed dramatically in 2021, services for the emergency department (ED) largely didn’t change. For that reason, coding 99202 (Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, which requires a medically appropriate history and/or examination and straightforward medical decision making. When using time...

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