ONC and CMS are working together to ease the burden of Evaluation and Management guidelines and related E&M codes on physicians, and in doing so, hope to make electronic medical records more useful.
“National Coordinator for HIT Donald Rucker, MD, told an audience last week at the annual American Medical Informatics Association symposium in Washington that E&M codes are leading to a lot of “chart bloat …the information is almost camouflaged by the size of the templates and the requirements… that are now outdated and counterproductive…”
Source: ONC, CMS taking aim at Evaluation and Management Coding, By Greg Slabodkin, November 13, 2017, Health Data Management. Read the full article here.
