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Take Your ED E/M Coding to the Next Level

Published on Mon Oct 21, 2019

Does your documentation justify those 99285s? You know that E/Ms, especially high-level E/Ms, require meticulous documentation. You also know that’s especially true in emergency departments (EDs), where coding 99285 (Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management of a patient...) means you have to calculate with total precision the elements and the high-complexity medical decision making (MDM) that go into [...]
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