An upcoming policy from Cigna Healthcare will focus on codes for office visits, but the move is concerning one spine surgeon. Effective Oct. 1, Cigna’s new Evaluation and Management Coding Accuracy ...

Evaluation and management payment involves defining and valuing codes. CMS originally talked about going to two E/M codes, and is now going to three codes, said CMS Administrator Seema Verma. Coding ...

We are not necessarily trained on how our documentation drives downstream processes. Evaluation and management coding, DRG assurance, and HCC scoring are not part of our educational rubric.

“Patient care should be driven by the need to treat patients, not the need to satisfy a coding requirement,” Ms. Caswell said. Documenting the decision-making thought process remains a challenge.

Documentation coding errors related to routine patient evaluation and management (E/M) visits are costing the Medicare program billions of dollars in improper payments a year — nearly $7 billion ...

HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ever hear of careers in health information? Maybe not. How about medical billing and coding? Probably not. Well, this is a vast and growing field ...

Four changes to know: 1. The 2021 CPT edition has 206 new codes, 69 revised codes and 54 deleted codes. Most don’t affect anesthesia, but there are changes for office and outpatient evaluation and ...

During the February 2019 CPT panel meeting, the American Medical Association discussed changes that would significantly impact office and outpatient evaluation and management coding, ICD-10 Monitor ...

Evaluation and management coding patterns are under the microscope. CMS is monitoring evaluation and management code usage by specialty, state and nationally. The Recovery Audit Program of CMS ...

Riva Lee Asbell We continue our series on the Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Coding with questions and answers on the second key component of evaluation and management (E/M ...