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Use These Tips to Get Hip to New Prolonged Services Coding Rules

Published on Thu Jan 06, 2022

Here’s why you should be careful when coding longer MDM-decided E/Ms. Coding for prolonged services became even more confusing in late 2020, when the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). Needless to say, it caused some confusion; coders were left trying to navigate the CPT® prolonged services as well as the [...]
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