Up in arms a year ago, physician groups found a lot to like in Medicare’s new approach to evaluation and management (E/M) services finalized in the 2020 physician fee schedule. Overall, the major ...

Anthem Blue Cross California pauses its E/M downcoding policy until March 1 pending DMHC review to ensure compliance and transparency.

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 ...

Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a ...

Evaluation and management (E/M) codes are among the major categories of codes that are frequently examined by third-party insurance auditors. Medicare auditors recently have seen many cases in which ...