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E/M Coding:

Master Subsequent Care Coding with 3 Expert Tips

Published on Thu Jan 24, 2019

Hint: Avoid consultation codes for Medicare. If subsequent hospital care coding has you stumped, you are not alone. These common inpatient E/M service codes perennially bump up the improper payment rate on the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) report and continue to be a hot topic for the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) program. Keep your [...]
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