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E/M Coding:

Proceed With Caution When Considering 'Counseling Exception'

Published on Thu May 23, 2019

It’s tricky to code based on time. Have you ever chosen an evaluation and management (E/M) service based on counseling and/or care coordination time, completely eschewing the normal components of an E/M service? If you answered yes, then you have used the so-called “counseling exception,” which sometimes allows you to choose an E/M code based strictly on the amount of [...]
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