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E/M Reform: You Can Now Bill For Non-Face-To-Face Prolonged Services

Published on Mon Feb 06, 2017

Check if service qualifies for another E/M code; count only physician services. This year brings in the dawn of some E/M reforms. You have a different set of add-on codes that you can try to report for prolonged services that your physician performed when they are not face-to-face with the patient. These add-on codes are: 99358 (Prolonged evaluation and management [...]
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