AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 8 (August)
Then & Now: Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services Guidelines (August 2014)
August 2014 page 13 Then & Now: Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services Guidelines THEN There have been numerous CPT Assistant articles (eg, August 2009, October 2006, and January 1998) that discussed how to distinguish whether a patient is considered new or established when reporting evaluation and management (E/M) services. These articles provided information to assist the user in determining when a patient visit should be reported as a new patient as opposed to an established patient. The following definitions were applicable before CPT 2012 for reporting new and established patient, as excerpted from the CPT 2011 code set: A...
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