But the AMA doesn't want to tinker with E/M coding againYou could be losing thousands of dollars every year due to downcoded evaluation & management codes - and there's no relief in sight.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said most of the $1 billion in underpayments in 2004 came from physician visits. CMS performed a special undercoding study as part of its 2004 report on the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing program, issued in December (see PBI, Vol. 6, no. 1). Meanwhile, E/M visits also account for a significant amount of downcoding.In the CERT report, CMS said...
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