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Pediatric Primary Care Billing Trends After the 2021 Evaluation and Management Coding Changes

Published:2024-08-01 Issue:8 Volume:178 Page:833
ISSN:2168-6203
Container-title:JAMA Pediatrics
language:en
Short-container-title:JAMA Pediatr

Author:

Rabbani Naveed¹²³,Patane Laura Burckett¹,Hatoun Jonathan¹²⁴,Correa Emily Trudell¹,Vernacchio Louis¹²⁴

Affiliation:

1. Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s, Wellesley, Massachusetts

2. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

3. Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

4. Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the differences in billing trends for pediatric patient care compared with adult care after the 2021 evaluation and management (E/M) policy changes.

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Link

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/articlepdf/2819323/jamapediatrics_rabbani_2024_ld_240018_1722284096.25739.pdf

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