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Get a Grip on TCM Reporting With These 4 Useful Pointers

Published on Tue Apr 11, 2017

Hint: You no longer have to wait a month to report TCM codes. When your clinician provides follow-up care for a patient discharged from certain acute care and other settings, you can look towards reporting transitional care management (TCM) codes for the evaluation and management of the patient. Bonus: These codes fetch higher revenue than the E/M codes for the [...]
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