AMA CPT® Assistant - 1992 Issue 2 (February)

Specialty Use of the New Evaluation and Management Codes (Summer 1992)

Summer 1992 page 23 Coding Tip Specialty Use of the New Evaluation and Management Codes How can each specialist use the new evaluation and management (E/M) codes effectively? By reading through these tips the individual physician will better understand the intended use of these codes. 1.    Analyze the types of patients/diseases you routinely treat. The services you typically provide sometimes fall at the low end of the codes, while others fall more at the high range. Others typically fall in the middle of this spectrum. 2.    Realize that at any given encounter, a patient with a specific disease/ condition...

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