Today, CMS released a regulation that added the emergency department (ED) evaluation and management (E/M) codes (CPT codes 99281 to 99285) to the list of approved Medicare telehealth services for the duration of the COVID-19 national emergency. CMS had previously expanded the ability to perform telehealth services, but had not allowed emergency physicians to use…

Effective: March 18, 2020 On March 11, 2020 the Novel Coronavirus Disease, COVID-19, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. On March 13, 2020 a national emergency was declared in the United States concerning the COVID-19 Outbreak. Given these developments, and the urgent need to capture the reporting of this condition in our…

This article courtesy of American College of Emergency Physicians. ICD-10-CM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a supplement to the ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines effective February 20, 2020.  The document provides coding guidance related to the novel coronavirus COVID-19.  This guidance is intended to be used in conjunction with the current ICD-10-CM…

New ICD-10-CM code for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.As a result of the declaration, the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHOFIC) Network Classification and Statistics Advisory Committee (CSAC) convened an emergency…

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Critical Care requires that documentation identify the critical illness or injury being managed, the critical decisions made and the time spent by the ED providers to manage the critically ill or injured patient.  Documentation often fails to provide the time spent by the ED physician managing these patients.  More and more payers are looking for…

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