DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2012 Issue 10 (October)

Benchmark of the Week: Established patient E/M utilization, 2009-2011

These charts show the utilization rate of each established patient E/M code (99211-99215) in 2011, 2010 and 2009. In this Part B News analysis of the latest Medicare claims data available, utilization rate was derived by taking the total service count in a given year for each code and dividing it by the service count for all five established patient office codes combined.

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