Webinar Objectives:
- To review the E/M codes as they appear in the CPT Manual
- To compare and contrast E/M coding for the physician professional component versus the hospital technical component
- To appreciate the difference between ‘new’ versus ‘established’ patients for physicians and hospitals
- To understand the differences in E/M coding for ER physicians and provider-based clinic physicians both primary care and specialty
- To appreciate the physician E/M documentation guidelines versus the lack of guidance for hospital use of E/M codes
- To review the technical component E/M coding system principles as enunciated by CMS
- To explore the compliance challenges faced by both physicians and hospitals for E/M coding and the “-25” modifier
- Recognize how to make changes to accommodate CMS’s dropping the use of the consultation codes
