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Take note of additional guidance on a suite of new E/M codes making their debut in 2018 to describe cognitive assessment and behavioral health care, straight from this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago.
When CMS deputy director Marge Watchorn asked a roomful of coding veterans at this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago what they would change about the guidelines, she got an earful. Here's what they said.
You’ll find a total of 314 code changes throughout your 2018 CPT manual, including updates that range from revised observation visits in the E/M chapter to new photodynamic therapy services in the Medicine chapter and two new modifiers.

On the heels of two similar settlements, a Baltimore health system has settled a case for $122,928 in which it was accused of getting the doctors whose practice it had acquired to bill established patients as if they were new, inflating their charges.

Some practices that frequently report E/M services with modifer 25 (Significant, separately identifiable E/M service) are on track to face a dramatic pay reduction.

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