The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...

Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...

The American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel at its February meeting approved technical corrections to the E/M coding guidelines for outpatient visits. The American Medical Association’s ...