tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q2

Update E/M 2021: Focus on MDM and Time Next Year

Learn new and established office patient code changes. You and your surgeons will need to shift your focus for documenting and coding E/M office visits in 2021, even though medical necessity remains the overarching criterion for selecting the E/M level. Here’s why: CPT® will use a different set of criteria for office visit codes 99202 through 99215 beginning Jan. 1, 2021. Instead of basing the code selection on the level of three key components as you currently do, the new basis for code selection will be primarily “either the level of medical decision making [MDM] performed ...

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