tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2023 Issue Q3

You Be the Coder: Solve Digital Evaluation Troubles

Question: Our surgeon wants to use the digital E/M codes, but we’re having difficulty documenting the time over multiple days. How can we document and bill these codes? Utah Subscriber Answer: The online digital evaluation and management (E/M) codes for physicians are the following: 99421 (Online digital evaluation and management service, for an established patient, for up to 7 days, cumulative time during the 7 days; 5-10 minutes) 99422 (… 11-20 minutes) 99423 (… 21 or more minutes) As you describe, keeping track of this service so that you can bill it is difficult, because the work occurs...

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