The American Medical Association is giving high marks to a proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce the burden of Evaluation and Management codes on physicians. E/M coding is the process by which physician-patient encounters are translated into five-digit...

One of the many issues that Congress can and should address to help improve this situation is to eliminate surprise medical billing once and for all. However, as it works to pass legislation on this issue, Congress must ensure that whatever solution it enacts does not lead to adverse, unintended consequences for patients or our health care system.

New proposals that prioritize patients over paperwork and let doctors be doctors by reducing administrative burdens—including simplifying coding for evaluation-and-management (E/M) office visit services—were released this week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

The ICD-10 codes associated with head CT examinations do not accurately reflect patient complexity, according to a new study published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. This discrepancy, the authors added, could make a significant impact on radiologists moving forward.  

Advance-care planning (ACP) is the keystone of goal-concordant care, enabling patients to state their treatment preferences while they still have the mental capacity to do so. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has acknowledged this by accepting two Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) reimbursement codes for these essential conversations.