tci E/M Coding Alert - 2021 Issue Q2

Prolonged Services: Use This Guide to Reduce Prolonged Services Agony

Learn the difference between +99417 and G2212. If you thought getting reimbursed for prolonged services was hard before this year, you should know it just got a whole lot harder now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced G2212 (Prolonged office or other outpatient evaluation and management service(s) beyond the maximum required time of the primary procedure which has been selected using total time on the date of the primary service; each additional 15 minutes by the physician or qualified healthcare professional, with or without direct patient contact (List separately in addition to CPT codes...

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