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Keep a calculator handy if your practice opts to report E/M office visits based on time next year. When a doctor and a non-physician practitioner such as a nurse practitioner (NP) share a visit you will count the time they spend separately and combine the time they spend together, noted Doris Branker, CPC, CIRCC, CPMA, CPC‐I, CANPC, CEMC, president of Sunrise, Fla.-based DB Healthcare Consulting.
Travel forward in time and use CMS' new medical decision making guidelines to code an office visit. Here's an example from our upcoming March 3 webinar on E/M for pain practices. How would you code this? 
How much do you know about the 21 communications-based and remote services that Medicare covers? Answer three questions that are based on the presentation for the upcoming Remote Control: Bring New Remote E/M Services Online in Your Practice webinar, Jan. 28, 1-2 p.m., ET to find out.
  1. Fill in the blank: The 2020 CPT manual contains ____ new codes for physiologic monitoring services.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 20 - After several sessions covering the historic E/M code changes moving closer to reality, some audience members here at the CPT and RBRVS 2020 Annual Symposium had pointed questions for CMS officials about the billions of dollars potentially on the move under the physician fee schedule in 2021. 
CMS scaled back many of the proposed changes to chronic and transitional care management services (CMS), but a few made it to the final rule. Next year you’ll have an add-on code for chronic care management code provided by clinical staff and two codes for management of a single high-risk condition.

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