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AMA Modifies Office/Outpatient E/M Directives

Published on Wed Apr 07, 2021

Changes will be retroactive to January 1. The office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes that premiered in 2021 were always planned to be a work in progress this year — and perhaps longer. And that work has already begun. The skinny: “The American Medical Association (AMA) and the CPT® Editorial Panel have heard feedback from the health care community and [...]
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