Preventative Care vs E/M Problem-Oriented Services

Choosing the proper office visit code can be confusing unless you fully understand rules between preventative medicine and evaluation and management (E&M) coding. Knowing the difference between preventive visits, with its many procedural services and bundled service codes, and E&M visits with its complicated coding and documentation guidelines, is imperative to correct office visit coding.

This week on Talk Ten Tuesdays we are joined by Healthcare Coding and Reimbursement Consultant and coding auditor Terry Fletcher, who reports on Preventative Medicine vs. E&M codes
The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:

• The Coding Report: Laurie Johnson reports the OIG update for coding sever malnutrition.
• News Desk: Timothy Powell, compliance expert and ICD10monitor national correspondent, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk.
• Tuesday Focus: Beth Wolf reports the latest on managed care denials for malnutrition.
• TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays host, will report on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.