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Quality Measures that Have Changed that Might Impact your Practice
For 2024, there are 11 new measures and 9 measures that have been retired.
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Coding
Coding Documentation Guidelines for Level 4 using Medical Decision Making & E/M Service for Treatment of Paronychia
Part I: What are the coding documentation guidelines for Level 4, specifically 99204 and 99214 using Medical Decision Making?
Part 2: What level of E/M service does the treatment of a paronychia qualify for?
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FDA Recalls
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Coding
Definition of Chronic
When selecting the level of E/M service based upon medical decision-making, the best source of information is the Level of Medical Decision-Making Table. The table includes the four levels of medical decision making (ie, straightforward, low, moderate, high) and the three elements of medical decision making (ie, “number and complexity of problems addressed,” “amount and/or complexity of data reviewed and analyzed,” “and risk of complications and/or morbidity or mortality of patient management”). To qualify for a particular level of medical decision making, two of the three elements for that level of medical decision making must be met or exceeded. It is under “Number and/or Complexity of Problems Addressed” that the issue of acute versus chronic is addressed. Acute versus chronic is not based upon a “time frame.”
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FDA Recalls