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New: Medicare Evaluation and Management Services Guide

December 02, 2014

Find-A-Code has posted the November 2014 edition of the Medicare Evaluation and Management Services Guide.

Go to https://www.findacode.com/medicare/e-m-guidelines-manuals.html  

From the title page of the guide:

This guide is offered as a reference tool and does not replace content found in the "1995 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services" and the "1997 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services." These publications are available in the Reference Section of this guide and at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/Downloads/1995dg.pdf and http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/Downloads/MASTER1.pdf on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website.

Note: Either version of the documentation guidelines, not a combination of the two, may be used by the provider for a patient encounter.


The Table of Contents for this 89 page guide includes:
Page - Item

03 MEDICAL RECORD DOCUMENTATION
03  General Principles of Evaluation and Management Documentation
04  Common Sets of Codes Used to Bill for Evaluation and Management Services
05  Evaluation and Management Service Providers
07 EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT BILLING AND CODING CONSIDERATIONS
07  Selecting the Code That Best Represents the Service Furnished
21  Other Considerations
22 REFERENCE SECTION
22  Resources
23  "1995 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services"
39  "1997 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services"


To view this manual go to https://www.findacode.com/medicare/e-m-guidelines-manuals.html  


Keeping you up to date.  Happy coding!

- the Find-A-Code Staff


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