Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...
Ample changes were made to how organizations will report observation services and more starting in 2023. The American Medical Association (AMA) released new evaluation and management (E/M) coding ...
The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...
Self-pay patients are an understudied yet important and financially vulnerable population of emergency department (ED) users. As ED facility fees may be a key cost driver in patient ED bills, we ...