tci E/M Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q1

Specialty Spotlight: Keep Your ED Coding on the Level With This Advice

MI, trauma cases don’t always add up to 99285. When a reader recently asked us whether all trauma and myocardial infarction (MI) encounters in the emergency department (ED) should be coded with a high-level E/M code such as 99285 (Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management of a patient …) because of their emergent nature, we got to wondering: does the severity of a condition automatically justify the E/M level? To get a handle on the issue, we reached out to two veteran E/M coders, and here’s what they had to say. Don’t Assume...

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