Prod ID: 315Examine new CPT guidance for outpatient E/M to ensure understanding, implementation, and compliance. A legal expert will explain what constitutes a “medically appropriate history and exam” and grapple with the issue of scoring MDM.
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This course reviews new CPT guidance for outpatient E/M services. Legal expert Michael Miscoe will help coders, auditors and physicians make sense of and implement the revised guidance. Walk through what constitutes a medically appropriate history and exam, and the new CPT medical decision-making scoring table.
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Michael MiscoeJD, CPC, CASCC, CUC, CCPC, CPCO, CPMA, CEMA, AAPC Fellow |
Michael is the President of Practice Masters, Inc., and is the founding partner of Miscoe Health Law, LLC. He has nearly thirty years of experience in healthcare coding and over twenty years as a forensic coding and compliance expert in civil and criminal cases. He has an extensive national speaking background and has been published in numerous national publications on a variety of coding and compliance topics. He has significant experience in Evaluation and Management, Physical Medicine, Electro-diagnostic, Radiologic, Physical Therapy, and Chiropractic service coding.
Michael served on the AAPC National Advisory Board for the 2007-2009 and 2013-2015 terms and is currently serving as the President of the Board. He also serves on the AAPC Legal Advisory Board and chairs the AAPC Ethics Committee. He is admitted to the Bar in the state of California.
Examine current discrepancies between CMS and new CPT guidance as well as the areas of unresolved ambiguity that will no doubt frustrate coders, auditors, and physicians alike when attempting to select the appropriate level of outpatient E/M service. Determine what constitutes a “medically appropriate history and exam” and grapple with the issue of scoring MDM under the new CPT medical decision-making scoring table.
With the advent of new CPT guidance for outpatient E/M services, coders, auditors, and physicians will be struggling to not only make sense of the revised guidance but to implement it as well. To ensure compliance, all will have to determine what constitutes a “medically appropriate history and exam” and grapple with the issue of scoring MDM under the new CPT medical decision-making scoring table.
During this presentation, we will outline the current discrepancies between CMS and CPT guidance as well as the areas of unresolved ambiguity that will no doubt frustrate coders, auditors, and physicians alike when attempting to select the appropriate level of outpatient E/M service.
Self-paced online program includes unlimited review of previously recorded instruction and the downloadable PowerPoint handout for 6 months.