An Overview of the FY 2021 Evaluation and Management Code Changes

For the first time since 1997 the American Medical Association (AMA), in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), will implement significant changes to the Evaluation and Management (E/M) office visit codes and guidelines. This paper provides an overview of the E/M changes that will be implemented January 1, 2021. Background and…

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UASI in JAHIMA: “Documentation and Coding Practices for Risk Adjustment and Hierarchical Condition Categories”

UASI’s health information management (HIM) experts continue to set the pace in this fast-evolving field. Our vice president of HIM consulting services, Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, co-authored a paper — published in the June 2018 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (JAHIMA) — that explored the…

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