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Test Your E/M with Preventive Medicine Reporting Skills With These 2 Scenarios

Published on Tue Mar 29, 2016

Hint: Don’t forget to support E/M codes with appropriate diagnosis codes. When you encounter your FP performing evaluation of a problem during a preventive annual checkup, you need to know under what circumstances you can report a problem-oriented E/M code separately. Also, you will need to know whether or not you are allowed to report a counseling service separately in [...]
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