Coding initial hospital care became more challenging after Medicare stopped paying for inpatient consult codes several years ago — but that can’t be the only factor driving the startling error rates for evaluation and management (E/M) codes 99223 and 99214. In the report “2019 Medicare Fee-for-Service Supplemental Improper Payment Data,” the Centers for Medicare & […]
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