Hospital charges for services like emergency department visits and initial hospital care continue to grow faster than other types of care, according to a new study. Hospitals boosted their median ...

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A review of Medicare Part B claims for evaluation and management (E/M) services conducted by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that the program paid $6.7 billion in improper payments ...

Most physicians who use electronic health record systems use them to code evaluation and management (E/M) services. However, they aren't bothering with the automatic coding feature in their EHR to do ...

The latest audit from the HHS’ Office of Inspector General comes as some Medicare flexibilities for telehealth are set to expire at the end of this year. Telehealth utilization soared during the early ...

Documentation coding errors related to routine patient evaluation and management (E/M) visits are costing the Medicare program billions of dollars in improper payments a year — nearly $7 billion alone ...

> About 200 hospital leaders are fighting the proposed Medicare cuts to evaluation and management services in hospital outpatient departments, according to AHA News Now. They warn that cutting E/M ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a letter to CMS this week, the American College of Rheumatology renewed its call to repeal the 2019 Medicare ...

Medicare inappropriately paid $6.7 billion for evaluation and management services claims in 2010 that weren't coded correctly or lacked documentation, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General ...

For years, providers have voiced their concerns about the amount of data entry required for Evaluation and Management (E/M) visits. Many state they spend twice as much time documenting in the ...