?Completely updated to include all 2024 changes in evaluation and management (E/M) codes, this year’s edition is larger and has existing E/M codes on side 1, for perspective, and the new E/M structure on side 2, to help coders navigate through any new coding guidelines. This convenient card lets you quickly find the right pediatric E/M code for any given level or situation. For established and new patients, documentation guidelines are provided by way of typical times, medical decision-making, history, and examination.
Key updates for 2024 include
- Changes to descriptions of total time for some evaluation and management codes
- CPT guidelines for reporting by a physician or other qualified healthcare professional when each professional provides a portion of an evaluation and management services (ie, split or shared service)
- Update information on Medicare’s prolonged service codes
The AAP Committee on Coding and Nomenclature (COCN) is responsible for reviewing all proposed changes to CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures to determine whether the Academy will endorse the proposal; participates in the American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee's (RUC) survey process by validating clinical vignettes, evaluating survey data, and deciding on physician work and practice expense relative value units (RVUs) to recommend to the RUC; and serves as a review panel regarding other activities such as identifying Academy positions on the RBRVS. The COCN also monitors the Medicare RBRVS physician fee schedule and its adoption by private and public payers.
To update pediatricians on its activities, including the formal publication of new and revised CPT and ICD-10-CM coding structures and final values for CPT codes used by pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical specialists, the COCN publishes periodic articles in AAP News along with a monthly coding column called Coding Corner.
