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Ground Your Inpatient Hospital Coding in This Guidance

Published on Tue May 25, 2021

Hint: All E/M services by the same specialty/same provider should be combined during that 24-hour period. The 2021 updates for evaluation and management (E/M) codes have overwhelmed some specialty coders and billers. While there are many new descriptors for office/outpatient E/M codes, hospital care codes largely remained the same. Mastering the new E/M rules while keeping the old—and, thus, current—guidance [...]
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