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E/M interactive worksheet

December 1, 2025

Improve your billing of hospital inpatient or observation discharge day management codes

December 23, 2025
Effective January 1, 2023, changes were made to hospital inpatient or observation discharge day management codes. Review this article for tips on proper code submissions.

First Coast’s E/M interactive worksheet updates: Verify your E/M code selection

December 23, 2025
Our E/M interactive worksheet has been upgraded to assist you with verifying proper code selection for office and “other” E/M visits for 2023 and beyond. Take a look.

Do not report more than one unit per date of service for E/M codes

December 23, 2025
Avoid claim rejects. If you bill E/M codes within the CPT code range 99202-99239, do not report more than one unit per date of service.

Prolonged physician services: Home or residence visits

December 23, 2025
Learn more about billing Medicare for prolonged home or residence E/M services that exceed the maximum time by at least 15 minutes on the date of service.

Critical care services

December 23, 2025
CMS has new guidelines for critical care services effective January 1, 2022. These updates were implemented February 15, and impacted existing billing and coding processes.

Understanding evaluation and management

December 23, 2025
View evaluation and management (E/M) related FAQs.

Medical decision making and the impact of prescription drug management

December 23, 2025
Medical decision-making (MDM) is one of the key components used to determine the level of service for Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding. Since 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) and CMS have emphasized MDM (or time) as the pr…

Understanding E/M office or other outpatient services

December 23, 2025
The A/B MACs partnered together to answer practitioners’ top questions related to evaluation and management (E/M) office and other outpatient services (procedure codes 99202-99215) effective on January 1, 2021.

Updated evaluation and management center

December 23, 2025
First Coast has updated our E/M center to provide links and tools to assist.
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