This year’s completely updated 28th edition of Coding for Pediatrics includes all changes in CPT® codes, complete with expert guidance for their application. Also included are the new changes to office and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) coding. The book’s many clinical vignettes, examples, and coding pearls add the guidance needed to ensure accuracy and payment.
View a message from Coding for Pediatrics 2023 editor Dr Linda Parsi to learn about using this title in your practice as well as key updates to this year’s edition.
Access to this ebook also includes access to an exclusive supplementary materials site located at www.aap.org/cfp2023.
6. Evaluation and Management Documentation Guidelines
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Published:November 2022
"6. Evaluation and Management Documentation Guidelines", Coding for Pediatrics 2023: A Manual for Pediatric Documentation and Payment, Committee on Coding and Nomenclature, American Academy of Pediatrics, Linda D. Parsi, MD, MBA, CPEDC, FAAP
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Chapter Highlights
Recognize the services to which general and specific evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines apply.
Understand the concepts of new versus established patient and initial versus subsequent encounter.
Learn the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) terms and definitions used in determining a level of E/M services based on a physician’s or other qualified health care professional’s (QHP’s) total time on the date of an encounter (regardless of the percentage spent in counseling and/or coordination of care) or on medical decision-making (MDM).
Apply the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines for reporting services provided as a teaching physician, when applicable.
