Up in arms a year ago, physician groups found a lot to like in Medicare’s new approach to evaluation and management (E/M) services finalized in the 2020 physician fee schedule. Overall, the major ...

If you listen to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization's plans to update evaluation and management (E/M) codes could simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this issue, Leffert talks with Susan R. Bailey, MD, president of the AMA, about the new evaluation and ...

Most healthcare players agree the evaluation and management billing codes used by CMS need an overhaul, but few like the manner to do so proposed by the agency. Some specialists are calling for the ...

Evaluation and management (E/M) codes drive much of the revenue in physician practices. Thus, these codes are often vulnerable to third-party auditor scrutiny. When auditing, auditors frequently ask ...

Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a ...

Nephrologists will likely see minor increases next year in payments for 14 of the 17 billable inpatient and outpatient dialysis services they provide; but the bigger news, according to an analysis of ...

Suki, an ambient AI healthcare company, is expanding its assisted revenue cycle capabilities to provide more specific automation and generate additional codes, including CPT and E/M codes. Suki, which ...

CMS has finalized the Physician Fee Schedule for 2019, pushing back a controversial flattening of E/M codes to 2021 after a backlash from providers and physicians. The rule also cuts some E/M ...

This observational study shows that clinical work performed by family physicians correlates poorly with common codes and fees under the existing coding and billing rules. The income disparity between ...

As previously reported in this post, criminal trials premised on upcoding evaluation and management (E/M) service codes are extremely rare. The Justice Department took that rare step in Maryland in ...