General Surgery Coding Alert

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Solve Digital Evaluation Troubles

Question: Our surgeon wants to use the digital E/M codes, but we’re having difficulty documenting the time over multiple days. How can we document and bill these codes? Utah Subscriber Answer: The online digital evaluation and management (E/M) codes for physicians are the following: 99421 (Online digital evaluation and management service, for an established patient, for up to 7 days, cumulative time [...]
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