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Clear Up MDM vs. Medical Necessity Confusion or Face Denials

Published on Tue Jul 14, 2015

Make sure your urologist knows what he is signing when submitting claims. Justifying high-level E/M codes, like 99215 (Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, which requires at least 2 of these 3 key components: a comprehensive history; a comprehensive examination; and medical decision making of high complexity …), depends on more than [...]
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