Hospital charges for services like emergency department visits and initial hospital care continue to grow faster than other types of care, according to a new study. Hospitals boosted their median ...

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A review of Medicare Part B claims for evaluation and management (E/M) services conducted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that the program paid $6.7 billion in improper payments ...

Most physicians who use electronic health record systems use them to code evaluation and management (E/M) services. However, they aren't bothering with the automatic coding feature in their EHR to do ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a letter to CMS this week, the American College of Rheumatology renewed its call to repeal the 2019 Medicare ...

The business of a medical oncology/hematology practice includes several important service lines. By far the most important part of the hematology and pure medical oncology practice is the evaluation ...

> About 200 hospital leaders are fighting the proposed Medicare cuts to evaluation and management services in hospital outpatient departments, according to AHA News Now. They warn that cutting E/M ...

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 alone ...

Medicare inappropriately paid $6.7 billion for evaluation and management services claims in 2010 that weren’t coded correctly or lacked documentation, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General ...