MelodyCPC
Contributor
After reading through the 2024 CPT E/M Services Guidelines, I have more questions than answers in regard to the newly added section regarding Split or Shared Visits. These CPT rules for team-based E/M services could be fairly significant for practices that have NPPs working with a supervising physician that approves and accepts responsibility for the management plan and I think that this is a relatively common scenario. Selecting the billing provider for payers that do not follow CMS Incident To and Split (or Shared) Visit guidelines or haven't implemented their own policies could become interesting with this new guidance! The new section doesn't address what E/M categories this concept applies to (office and hospital?) or whether each provider must have a face-to-face with the patient, etc.
What are your thoughts on this? How do you plan to implement this in your practice? How will you keep it all straight as far as applying CMS guidelines to those applicable payers and CPT guidelines for all others?
What are your thoughts on this? How do you plan to implement this in your practice? How will you keep it all straight as far as applying CMS guidelines to those applicable payers and CPT guidelines for all others?