The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released changes to the CPT Evaluation and Management (E/M) guidelines which take effect on January 1, 2023. These changes build on the revisions to office/outpatient E/M codes from 2021 heightening medical decision-making and seeking to reduce the documentation burden on practitioners.  

The CPT E/M changes for 2023 will affect hospital inpatients, observation care visits, consultations, emergency room visits, and nursing facility services along with home, rest home, and domiciliary E/M codes. 

In this new webinar, R1’s panel of experts will cover: 

• Level of E/M services based on the level of the MDM as defined for each service OR total time for the E/M service performed on the date of the encounter  
• How practitioners should handle both face-to-face and non-face-to-face time
  
• Revision/combining of hospital inpatient and observation care services E/M codes 99221-99223, 99231-99239 and guidelines (one code combines both services)
  
• Which hospital observation services E/M codes were deleted
  
• Which inpatient hospital services E/M codes were revised to include observation care services
  

• Changes to existing prolonged services codes
  
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed prolonged services codes 
• And much more! 

Moderator:    

Dan Pope, General Manager & SVP, R1 Hospital-Based Physician Solutions  

Expert Panel: 

Yvonne Russell, Director, Quality Assurance, R1 Physician Advisory Services  

Aaron Cessna, D.O., VP, Quality and Account Management, R1 Physician Advisory Services  

Stephanie James, Manager, Coding Quality Assurance, R1 Physician Solutions