Clearing up E/M ‘clarifications’ – Retina Specialists

The AMA issued new evaluation and management guidelines that can be hard to appreciate.

The 2021 evaluation and management guidelines from the American Medical Association have a straightforward premise: Code your visit based on problems, data and  management, and don’t count history and exam elements. Yet, there are some points in these guidelines that are hard to appreciate, especially in light of recent clarifications the AMA published in March.  I’ll review them here.

This article was published in Retina Specialist, which is written by Ellen R. Adams, MBA. To view the entire article in Retina Specialist, click on the link below:

https://www.retina-specialist.com/article/clearing-up-e-m-clarifications