If you listen to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization's plans to update evaluation and management (E/M) codes could simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to ...

This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

Physician advocacy groups are urging Cigna to withdraw a new reimbursement policy that would automatically downcode high-level E/M claims, arguing it undermines clinical judgment and creates an unfair ...

BOCA RATON, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading healthcare technology vendor Modernizing Medicine® today announced that the company’s electronic health records (EHR) systems, EMA and gGastro EHR, are ready ...

Medical coding and billing is a fairly complex process and requires that those working in the medical office to have extensive training to ensure proper billing of the insurance company. Often ...

Medical Economics shared three tips for avoiding denials related to evaluation and management codes. 1. Understand the amount of time typically linked to each E/M level. 2. Document total time spent ...