AMA CPT® Assistant - 2019 Issue 6 (June)

Interprofessional Telephone/Internet/Electronic Health Record Consultation Services (June 2019)

June 2019 pages 7-8 Interprofessional Telephone/Internet/Electronic Health Record Consultation Services In 2019, several changes occurred in the Evaluation and Management (E/M) section of the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set in order to keep current with advances in digital health. The CPT Editorial Panel recognizes the need to adapt to a continuously evolving healthcare industry while still maintaining rigorous standards. Therefore, revisions were made in the E/M section to reflect digital health innovations. For example, the addition of the term "electronic health record" (EHR) to the code set because online interprofessional consultations has become increasingly common. EHR describes...

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