Archives for February 2021

Insights: Changes in Level of Service Using Office Visit Guidelines

The American Medical Association (AMA) changed the definitions for codes 99202–99215, effective 1/1/2021 Medical practices are struggling to accurately apply these new definitions to office visits There are significant shifts in the level of service calculated from 2020 to 2021 Both the AMA and CMS said that they didn’t anticipate that levels of service would […]

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Archives for February 2021

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