tci E/M Coding Alert - 2021 Issue Q1

Specialty Spotlight: Get to the Heart of the E/M Transition

Here’s how the new office/outpatient guidelines will affect cardiology. At the moment, your cardiology practice is probably processing paperwork for office/outpatient E/M codes 99202-99215 that straddle the new year. That means you’ll have use one set of guidelines to level E/M services provided before Dec. 31, 2020 and another for encounters conducted after Jan. 1, 2021. That sets up plenty of challenges, and the potential for mistakes. Fortunately, during a recent AAPC webinar “E/M Guidelines Changes: Cardiology,” speaker Jaci Kipreos, COC, CPC, CDEO, CPMA, CPC-I, CEMC provided some much-needed guidance to help you avoid E/M...

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