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Cigna’s plan for unbundled office visits is likely to increase your paperwork and and slow reimbursement.
 
 
As private payers continue to cut coverage for office consults and more coding changes approach, we can't help but wonder if practices should give up on this set of E/M codes.
Mother of mercy, is this the end of consults?
On March 13, CMS posted a fact sheet to the cms.gov website to aid Medicare providers, billers and coders with information relating to the pricing of both the CDC and non-CDC coronavirus (COVID-19) tests.  
It may sound counterintuitive, but two patients who are attributed the same diagnosis during a patient encounter can have wildly divergent risk-adjustment coding scores.
When coding under a risk-adjustment paradigm, capturing the full range of a patient’s chronic conditions takes on elevated importance. That’s because your payments, and ultimately your coding compliance, may be impacted.

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