Addressing Gaps in Coding for Virtual Care
After restrictions eased during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth use and spending mushroomed. Now, the medical coding infrastructure must address the challenges of keeping up.
Outpatient evaluation and management claims can be billed at five levels, which determine a visit’s complexity. The most common level in 2004 was three. In 2021, these two levels made up the largest percentage of emergency department claims, according to RevCycleIntelligence.