Is your practice ready for coming changes to E/M coding? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and American Medical Association (AMA) will implement ...

Judd Harwood, John Perry Jr. On July 27, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its proposed annual update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which proposes changes to ...

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding ...

BOCA RATON, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading healthcare technology vendor Modernizing Medicine® today announced that the company’s electronic health records (EHR) systems, EMA and gGastro EHR, are ready ...

The largest single-specialty provider of rheumatology services in Arkansas has automated clinical charting with the Saykara mobile AI voice assistant, resulting in significant productivity and ...

Saying it could underpay doctors who treat the sickest patients, more than 150 medical groups sent a letter opposing a government plan to consolidate evaluation and management (E/M) codes. In a letter ...

CMS’ final rule released Nov. 1 includes changes to the billing and coding requirements for evaluation and management services, Health Data Management reports. Effective Jan. 1, CMS’ E/M coding ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said today that it is seeking to change its approach to paying clinicians for many office visits, incorporating recommendations and ideas from ...

Physician groups want to work with CMS to make further changes before the implementation of a new E/M payment system in 2021. (Getty/Saklakova) With a two-year delay on implementation of a new coding ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this issue, Leffert talks with Susan R. Bailey, MD, president of the AMA, about the new evaluation and ...

This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...