The new Medicare and Medicaid coding guidelines for office visits are a big deal. Ensuring that they benefit the people who need them is a bigger one. It is clearer now that the federal government and ...

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) on January 28 called for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to adopt a long-term electronic health record (EHR) strategy of ...

The American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel at its February meeting approved technical corrections to the E/M coding guidelines for outpatient visits. The American Medical Association’s ...

Split (or shared) visits—the current term used by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—allow non-physician practitioners (NPPs) and physicians who work for the same employer/entity to ...