tci E/M Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 2

News You Can Use: Increase in Conversion Factor Will Boost Your 2018 Bottom Line

But RVUs, CCM, and E/M guideline changes still on hold. Have you noticed a small rise in your revenues this year? If you have, it's because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) increased the conversion factor by 11 cents in the 2018 Fee Schedule. But, as we briefly reported last month, guidelines for reporting evaluation and management (E/M) services and guidelines for chronic care management (CCM) don't look like changing any time soon. And CMS is, unfortunately, still on the fence when it comes to increasing relative value units (RVUs), even though it admits that E/M services...

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