A CMS representative solicited input from audience members on potential revisions to E/M documentation guidelines at the AMA’s 2018 CPT Symposium in Chicago this week.
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CMS discusses potential E/M updates at 2018 CPT Symposium
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
A CMS representative solicited input from audience members on potential revisions to E/M documentation guidelines at the AMA’s 2018 CPT Symposium in Chicago this week, continuing the agency’s outreach on E/M reform that began with this year’s Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. 
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Completing an analysis of a facility’s E/M code utilization can pinpoint or resolve systematic gaps with clinical documentation, the capture of separately billable services, and under- or over-assignment of the E/M level.

– Vickie Bridge, RHIA, CPHQ, senior consultant at Prism Healthcare Partners, Ltd., in Chicago
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