{"title":"E&M Coding About to Change.","authors":"Sean Price","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>First, the bad news: Physicians need to take some serious time between now and Jan 1, 2021, to study changes that are coming to Medicare outpatient evaluation and management (E&M) codes - changes most private insurers likely will follow. Now the good news: The changes should reduce the amount of documentation needed with each patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":39209,"journal":{"name":"Texas Medicine","volume":"116 8","pages":"43-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Texas Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
First, the bad news: Physicians need to take some serious time between now and Jan 1, 2021, to study changes that are coming to Medicare outpatient evaluation and management (E&M) codes - changes most private insurers likely will follow. Now the good news: The changes should reduce the amount of documentation needed with each patient.
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