tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 34

Evaluation: Resolution to Stop E/M Code Revisions Goes to Trustees

AMA reconsiders 'clinical examples' Evaluation and management codes may not move from guidelines to examples after all.   At the interim meeting of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates Dec. 6 through 9 in Honolulu, the AMA considered a resolution that aimed to put the brakes on changes to code descriptors for E/M codes.   The AMA had recommended replacing the 1995 and 1997 guidelines for coding E/M visits with "clinical examples" that would allow physicians to set an E/M level based on their narrative descriptions (see PBI, Vol. 4, No. 25, p. 163). Eleven specialty societies had...

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